Twin Falls Downtown Historic District

	Twin Falls Downtown Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Orpheum Theater, built 1920
Location	Roughly bounded by 2 Ave. N, 2 St. E, 2 St. W, 2 St. S, 3 Ave. S, 3 St. W., Twin Falls, Idaho
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Architect	Morse, Burton; et.al.
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	00000035
Added to NRHP	February 4, 2000

The Twin Falls Downtown Historic District is a 20 acres (8.1 ha) historic district in Twin Falls, Idaho which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

The 20 acres (8.1 ha) district spans 11 blocks of mostly commercial buildings, and included 42 contributing buildings and 33 non-contributing ones.^[1]^[2]

It includes works by local architects Burton Morse and Ernest Gates, and by other architects including J.H. Dodd, Houghtelling and Vissner, C. Harvey Smith, and Boise firm Wayland & Fennell.^[2]

Selected buildings include:

Twin Falls Title and Abstract building, 202 E. Shoshone, whose main portion, with Classical Revival details, was designed by Burton Morse in 1917
Herriott Motor Building (c.1917), 156 Second Avenue W., designed by Burton Morse. It became an auto dealership, the location of local radio station KTFI from 1932 to 1937, a ballroom named "Radioland", and during the 1940s was the Rollerdome skating rink.^[2]
Baugh Building (1916), 102 Main Avenue N., a two-story building with a cornice, having a corner entrance and also an entry on Shoshone Street N. This was designed by Wayland & Fennell.^[2]

References

1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
1 2 3 4 Elizabeth Egleston Giraud (June 15, 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Twin Falls Downtown Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved October 13, 2017. With 24 photos.

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[nris-1] 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpdoc-2] 1 2 3 4 Elizabeth Egleston Giraud (June 15, 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Twin Falls Downtown Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved October 13, 2017. With 24 photos.

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