Construction industry

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of sheet music, performance programs, newspaper clippings, financial records, photographic prints, and ephemera related to Adrien Godfrey’s membership in the Boise Elks Gleemen, a men’s choir group. The collection also consists of financial records, correspondence, performance programs, personal writings, legal documents, postage stamps, and ephemera created and collected by Adrien Godfrey during his lifetime.

Abstract During Ben Day’s interview, which took place on November 9, 2017, he described what it was like growing up on the Boise Bench. Day described his childhood, schooling, and his father’s construction history. The main subject discussed was the construction of Vista Village, how it impacted the Bench neighborhood, and what businesses have been located there. Overall, the interview was about the changes that took place on the Depot Bench during Day’s lifetime, from his birth in 1949 to the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Abstract

Joe Jordan started working for Morrison-Knudsen right after finishing his military service in the Army. In 1955 he went to work on the Brownlee and Oxbow in the Hells Canyon. Afterwards he went to work for Bechtel and then back to M-K to work on the Colombian coal project, called Cerrajon. Jordan then worked for International Engineering Company, an M-K company. Jordan worked on many international projects. IECo, of San Francisco, planed and offered engineering services to many countries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Scope and Contents

This collection documents the historic preservation and restoration activities on the Boise Depot by the Morrison Knudsen Company from 1991-1993. Also included in the collection are research material used to inform the planning and design of the restoration, and admission receipts from the first year of operation after reopening.

Abstract In her interview with Terri Schorzman on February 26, 2022, Patricia Wilcomb discusses her personal history and experience as a singer and board member for the Boise Philharmonic and Boise Civic Opera.Patricia begins her interview discussing how her family came to Boise from Tennessee after the American Civil War, and her father’s career as a builder in the 1920s and 30s with his company, Jordan-Wilcomb Construction, Inc. formerly Jordan & Son, and the notable projects they...