Idaho City

 OFF TO A NEW ADVENTURE    

On my way to the summer job in Stanley, ID, I spent a night in Idaho City, a gold town, but certainly not a ghost town.  Idaho City is the county seat for Boise County.   Considerably smaller than the city of Boise or many of its surrounding communities, County government is centered here. Delightfully, they have used the old buildings, even some of the old furnishings as their headquarters.

      I stayed in the Idaho City Inn, arriving early in the day from Boise.  It was a great spot to spend the last night before arriving at Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch in Stanley, which is also a historic spot, just not quite as old.  As someone who spent her career in public administrations, I must say that none of the cities or counties I worked in had such interesting office buildings.  Here are a few scenes from Idaho City.

Idaho City Hotel.   Very comfortable, quiet.   Interiors of rooms have been updated.

The Boise County Commissioners hold meetings in the bar of an old hotel.  The bar, is still in place and the lighting fixtures are of the period of Idaho City's mining era..

City Hall.   It is a lot more attractive than the City Halls I worked in in Antioch and Richmond.  Richmond's wasn't bad for a fairly modern building but Antioch's, despite great location overlooking the merging of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers, was a sad example of architecture.  

There was a good museum in town where I spent some time.  Besides the indoors, there were a  number of smaller buildings, such as a blacksmith shop, fire station, and jail\pest house (where people who were contagious could be kept),.

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The Pest House was an isolation infirmary.  Combined with the jail, and rather austere accomodations, it didn't seem to me to be a particularly healthy, for the sick person, situation.   \

This is a snow shoe for a horse.   First time I saw one of these was in Bodie.

Idaho City Cemetery

Some photos repeat.  Not sure what is happening, but if I try to remove one, all of them go.....this is not how this program normally works.  Oh well, at least I got it posted finally.