City Club of Boise Tour: Foote Park Interpretive Center

City Club of Boise members are invited to attend a guided tour of the Foote Park Interpretive Center. Foote Park Center was built to improve the existing Foote Park Site to honor two individuals, Arthur DeWint and Mary Hallock Foote. They had important impacts on the physical and cultural developments in Idaho's Treasure Valley. The Center highlights the Footes who had a vision of the Treasure Valley populated with thousands of prosperous families.

The Center is located at the site of the original Foote Stone House, designed and built by Arthur Foote in 1885. It was funded by sales of Mary's literary works, and constructed using lava rock for the walls and native wood for floors and cupboards, as well as cement made from Arthur’s formula.

During the tour, park co-founders Dr. Janet Worthington and Mary Ann Arnold will walk you through the park, telling the Foote story, explaining the…