Confident rooflines and a wraparound veranda greet you at the Moore-Cunningham House, a Queen Anne mansion architect James King raised here in Boise, Idaho in 1892. This is a substantial brick house of 6,326 square feet, the kind of home that announces itself with confident rooflines and a storied past. Inside it contains five bedrooms and 4.75 bathrooms, but it’s the exterior details that first catch you: a gracious wraparound veranda and an observation tower that lift your eye.
This was the first house in Boise to use geothermal heating, a surprising bit of innovation woven into historic craftsmanship. The home remained in the hands of family members and descendants of Christopher W. Moore from its construction, and you may note its recognition on the National Register of Historic Places, where it was listed in 1977. More recently, in 2017, the property was listed for sale at $2.4 million, a marker of its scale and significance.
Follow the tower's line skyward, then trace the veranda's wraparound path, brick and wood telling the same story of scale and craft.