Look up at the round turrets crowning the Idanha Hotel, Boise's priciest building when it rose in 1901 for $125,000. Built in 1901 and designed by architect W. S. Campbell, this six-story red brick French-Chateau structure was erected at a cost of $125,000, at the time the most expensive building to date in Boise. Notice the round turrets on its three prominent corners and the mansard roof crowning the façade, all set on a sandstone basement and foundation—one of the only few buildings left downtown with that solid sandstone base.
The Idanha opened and functioned as a hotel before it was transformed into an apartment building in the 1970s, and it earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. At street level today the 1st floor houses the Bombay Grill and Guru Donuts, while the basement holds the 10th Street Station Bar and Mullet Proof Hair Co. For decades residents and staff have reported paranormal activity, most often on the third and fourth floors; staff of the Bombay Grill have stated that pans, pots, and silverware have flown and fallen off... You might hear about pots and pans still flying off shelves at the Bombay Grill on the third and fourth floors.