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Basque Museum & Cultural Center

Boise, Grove Street. A boarding house that took Basque men from 1917 to 1969, and has been the country's first Basque museum since 1985.

The Cyrus Jacobs House (1864) in Boise, Idaho, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also known as the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House, and it is part of the Basque Museum
The Cyrus Jacobs House (1864) in Boise, Idaho, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also known as the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House, and it is part of the Basque Museum
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Where
611 Grove Street, Boise, ID, 83702harvested
Opened
1864
as a house; a Basque boarding house from the 1910s; a museum since 1985cited

Before

Cyrus Jacobs built the brick house in 1864. Basque families ran it as a boarding house; the Uberuagas took it on in 1917, bought it in 1928, and kept boarders until 1969. Adelia Simplot, a Basque immigrant's daughter, bought it from the family and opened the museum inside it in 1985.

Why it matters to a directory of restaurantsinference

Every long table in this directory descends from a room like this one — a bed, a meal at a set hour, somebody who spoke Euskara, and a table long enough for everyone in the building. California and Nevada kept the table and lost the building. Boise kept the building.

Pictures

The Cyrus Jacobs House (1864) in Boise, Idaho, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also known as the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House, and it is part of the Basque Museum
The Cyrus Jacobs House (1864) in Boise, Idaho, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also known as the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga Ho
Tamanoeconomico · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
The Cyrus Jacobs House (1864) in Boise, Idaho, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also known as the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House, and it is part of the Basque Museum
The Cyrus Jacobs House (1864) in Boise, Idaho, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also known as the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga Ho
Tamanoeconomico · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
Plaque on the facade of the Cyrus Jacobs House, 607 Grove Street, Boise, Idaho, USA. Former boarding house for Basque immigrants.
Plaque on the facade of the Cyrus Jacobs House, 607 Grove Street, Boise, Idaho, USA. Former boarding house for Basque immigrants.
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Front door of the Cyrus Jacobs House, 607 Grove Street, Boise, Idaho, USA. Former boarding house for Basque immigrants.
Front door of the Cyrus Jacobs House, 607 Grove Street, Boise, Idaho, USA. Former boarding house for Basque immigrants.
Carl Burnett · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons
Cyrus Jacobs House, 607 Grove Street, Boise, Idaho, USA. Former boarding house for Basque immigrants.
Cyrus Jacobs House, 607 Grove Street, Boise, Idaho, USA. Former boarding house for Basque immigrants.
Carl Burnett · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons

Kin

Basque cupboard with lauburu (=basque cross), (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France).Ostatuawordthe word for what this building wasA cider-maker house inside Igartubeiti Farm Museum in Ezkio-Itsaso village. Guipuscoa, Basque Country.The long tablestorythe table this building setA bench outside the Basque Museum and Cultural Center in Boise, IdahoThe Basque Blockstorythe block grew around it← the building at the centre of itGraves belonging to Basque immigrants and their descendants buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho, USA.Idahoregionthe state it stands in← the building the block is built around
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Record provenance: cited · confidence high · updated 2026-09-16