Foote Park Project How You Can Help Preserving Art & Engineering of the Your contribution of time and/or money will bring a significant part of ’s Old West history to life.

The Project was established to improve the existing VOLUNTEER! Contact us at: Foote Park Site as a grassroots effort by Janet and [email protected] Mary Ann to honor two individuals, Arthur De Or Call: 208-853-2599 Wint and Mary Hallock Foote. They had important Volunteers must be 18 or older impacts on the physical and cultural developments Your Contact Information: in Idaho’s Treasure Valley. This project highlights HONORING the Footes who had a vision of the Treasure Valley populated with thousands of prosperous families. Name: ______Arthur De Wint Foote

Address: ______and Aerial View of Foote Park Site ______Mary Hallock Foote

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Email: ______Pioneers whose cultural and creative contributions helped shape the DONATE ! Make checks payable to: Foundation for Idaho History/Foote Treasure Valley as we know it today Credit Card Payment (Check: Visa__ or MC__ ) Card No. ______Expiration Date: ______Foote Park is located by the east of Boise, ID, across the river from Discovery Park Signature: ______on Highway 21. It is on US Army Corps of Mail To: Foote Park Project Engineers’ property near the . c/o Janet Worthington 8109 W Powell St. Proposed Site Improvements Boise, ID 83714 • New Interpretive Center showcases the Foote Canyon House - Circa 1885 Footes’ contributions Foundation for Idaho History is a non-profit organization; your donation is tax deductible . • Improved signage and road access • Expanded parking Dr. Janet Worthington • Site historical heritage markers Mary Ann Arnold • Visitor facilities and security Project Chairs Photos used with permission from Ann Brillhart, [email protected] Great-granddaughter of A.D. & M. H. Foote

Original Foote Canyon House

• Designed and built by Arthur Foote in 1885 • Funded by sales of literary works by his

wife, Mary Hallock Foote • Built using lava rock for the walls and native wood for floors and cupboards • Used cement made from his own formula

All that remains are the remnants of the foundation.

New Interpretive Center

Arthur De Wint Foote Mary Hallock Foote 1849 – 1933 1847 – 1938 • • Created illustrations for key literary Moved his family to Idaho and figures of her time, including devoted his talents to the Boise Hawthorne, Whittier, Longfellow, River Irrigation Project and Louisa May Alcott, making her a nationally known artist Architect’s Sketch • Developed an irrigation plan for the New York Canal in the Treasure • Began her western travels with her The center will reflect the Canyon House as it Valley husband Arthur De Wint Foote in will be a reproduction of a section of the Canyon 1876 and started writing her own House veranda, seen in the drawing below. • stories, essays, and ultimately 12 Turned his experiences in Idaho, novels California, Nevada, and Colorado into engineering and entrepreneurial • Balanced her roles as wife, mother, innovations that had significant novelist, illustrator, and interpreter impact in the American West of the American West • Credited by the US Bureau of • Created an authentic depiction of Reclamation who used his plan to western life that featured a woman’s gentler perspective complete the irrigation system in 1909

The Pretty Girls in the West , 1889, M. H. Foote