That same year, he hired John C. Paulsen, a famous German architect, to build what would later be known as the Boise Natatorium. “It was multiple, two stories, but then there were six-story ...

The Natatorium in Boise opened in May 1892. Idaho State Historical Society. If you lived in Boise in 1891, you had reason to be proud of your little city. Your growing hometown now had an ...

Boise's Natatorium, built in 1892 at a cost of $87,000, once housed the biggest swimming pool in the West, an elegant, geothermally heated wonder that drew locals and visitors for ...