Idaho Historic Highway Context Study

The multi-volume Historic Survey of Roads in Idaho’s State Highway System provides the development of Idaho’s State Highway System and a history of the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) and its predecessor agencies to serve as a basis for evaluating the National Register of Historic places (National Register) eligibility of roads within the State Highway System. This report comprises two volumes. Volume 1: Historic Context, is the first component in the ITD’s effort to evaluate historic highways throughout the state. This report provides a basis for evaluating the historic significance and integrity of individual highways or highway segments throughout Idaho in order to complete National Register eligibility determinations. Information gathered for this report may also be useful for interpretation of highways for public appreciation and to inform Idahoans of the crucial role transportation has played in the growth and development of the state. Individual sections that describe the physical development of Idaho’s State Highway System and the related important historical themes. This report provides the basis for developing criteria for evaluating the state’s highways based on the standards of the National Register in a companion report titled Volume 2: Application of the National Register of Historic Places Criteria for Evaluation of the Historic Survey of Roads in Idaho’s State Highway System. The purpose of the Evaluation Criteria is to provide a consistent and step-by-step approach to evaluating the historic significance and assessing integrity of individual roads currently within the State Highway System or segments of roads within the State Highway System to complete National Register of Historic Places determinations of eligibility.

• Record URL:
  https://apps.itd.idaho.gov/apps/research/Completed/RP267_Vol-1.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://apps.itd.idaho.gov/apps/research/Completed/RP267_Vol-2.pdf
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Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $159100
• Contract Numbers:

  RP 267

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Idaho Department of Transportation

  P.O. Box 7129
  3311 W. State Street
  Boise, ID  United States  83707-1129
• Project Managers:

  Schwartz, Tracy

• Performing Organizations:

  Mead & Hunt, Incorporated

  Lansing, MI  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Slattery, Christina

• Start Date: 20171220
• Expected Completion Date: 20191231
• Actual Completion Date: 20191231

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highways; Historic sites
• Identifier Terms: National Register of Historic Places
• Geographic Terms: Idaho
• Subject Areas: Highways; History;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01661924
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Idaho Transportation Department
• Contract Numbers: RP 267
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Mar 6 2018 6:07PM