Joseph Kinney Mausoleum
{{Short description|Historic site in Ada County, Idaho, US}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
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{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Kinney, Joseph, Mausoleum
| nrhp_type =
| image = Joseph Kinney Mausoleum (2).jpg
| caption = The Joseph Kinney Mausoleum in 2019
| location= Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho
| coordinates = {{coord|43.609509|-116.228729|region:US_type:landmark|name=Kinney, Joseph, Mausoleum|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Idaho#USA
| built = {{Start date|1905}}
| architect = Tourtellotte, John E. & Company
| architecture = Classical Revival
| added = November 17, 1982
| area = less than one acre
| mpsub = [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/64000170.pdf Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR]
| refnum = 82000218{{NRISref|version=2013a}}
}}
The Joseph Kinney Mausoleum at Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise, Idaho, is a Classical Revival entombment designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1905. The structure is made of granite and features a Doric portico with bronze doors below a recessed pediment with a simple stone carving. Corner pilasters frame two side windows. The mausoleum was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=82000218}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Kinney, Joseph, Mausoleum |publisher=National Park Service|author= |date= |accessdate=March 19, 2019}} With {{NRHP url|id=82000218|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}}
Joseph Kinney
Joseph Kinney served in the Union Army of the American Civil War and was discharged in 1866. He traveled to Silver Bow, Montana, as a mining prospector, then later in 1866 he settled in Boise.{{cite news |title=Joseph Kinney Dies in Oakland |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=February 10, 1905 |page=5}} Kinney owned the Arc Light Saloon,{{cite news |title=Hof Brau Tonight |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=July 25, 1891 |page=8}}{{cite news |title=For Violating Gambling Law |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=November 23, 1904 |page=4}} and he was a stockholder in the Idaho Building & Loan and in the Boise Bank of Commerce.{{cite news |title=Successful Investment |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=January 31, 1903 |page=5}}{{cite news |title=Bank of Commerce (advertisement) |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=February 28, 1903 |page=4}} Kinney owned a horse ranch in Butte, and he enjoyed horse racing.{{cite news |title=For Butte Races |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=June 28, 1901 |page=5}}
Kinney may have suffered from COPD, and he and Margaret Kinney had traveled to Oakland for health reasons. When Kinney died at Oakland in 1905, his remains were returned to Boise and placed in a temporary vault while the Joseph Kinney Mausoleum was constructed. At the time, the Idaho Statesman said of the mausoleum that it was "probably the finest structure of its kind in the state."{{cite news |title=Remains of Joseph Kinney to Be Laid in Mausoleum |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=March 28, 1906 |page=5}}
Margaret Kinney remarried and later was known as Margaret Armstrong. Although a resident of Oakland, she continued to own property and to conduct business in Boise.{{cite news |title=Former Resident Visits |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=May 2, 1923 |page=9}}
Joseph Kinney House
The Joseph Kinney house is a contributing resource in Boise's Warm Springs Avenue Historic District. The house was designed by Tourtellotte & Co. in 1903 and completed in 1904.{{cite news |title=Stone Residence |newspaper=Idaho Statesman |location=Boise, Idaho |date=April 10, 1903 |page=5}}
See also
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External links
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- [https://parks.cityofboise.org/parks-and-facilities/parks/morris-hill-cemetery/ Morris Hill Cemetery] website
{{National Register of Historic Places}}
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Boise, Idaho
Category:Neoclassical architecture in Idaho
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1904
Category:Mausoleums on the National Register of Historic Places