The Mrs. A.F. Rossi House in Boise, Idaho, is a one-story cottage in the Colonial Revival style with "proto-bungaloid" elements. The house was designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1906. Its prominent feature is an outset, left front center porch. In 1982, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[2]
Lola L. Lindsey and Alexander F. Rossi were married February 25, 1903, in Boise.[3] Alexander Rossi was associated with W.H. Ridenbaugh in logging and lumber enterprises until 1908, and they owned the A.F. Rossi Company, a South Boise lumber mill.[4] In 1905, sister and brother Adaline Bennett and Alex Rossi deeded property in South Boise to Lola Rossi, and on the lot a six-room cottage was constructed in 1906 according to plans drawn by Tourtellotte & Co.[5][6] The Rossis may have occupied the house until 1926, when they moved to Idaho City and became proprietors of the Luna House hotel, named for original owner M.G. Luney.[7] The hotel was identical in name to the Luna House in Lewiston, an early stagecoach stop in Idaho Territory.[8][a]
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^Researchers preparing the nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places may have confused Alexander F. Rossi with his father, Alexander A. Rossi. Tourtellotte & Co. had designed a house for the senior Rossi and his family including his son, Lex, and it was constructed in 1902 at the corner of 1st and Jefferson Streets in Boise.[9] The house burned later that year while the senior Rossi was bedridden with a broken hip, and Lex was credited with carrying his father to safety.[10] In 1905 the senior Rossi became injured again in a buggy accident.[11] Alexander A. Rossi died in February, 1906, but his son, Alexander F. Rossi, died in October, 1947.[12][13]
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