Access Boise Editorial Team

St. John’s Cathedral — formally the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist — is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise, which covers the entire state of Idaho. It sits near Julia Davis Park on the western edge of downtown, built in a Romanesque Revival style with twin brick towers, and it … Read more

The Cathedral of the Rockies is the popular name for First United Methodist Church, a large Gothic-style church in downtown Boise. It is not a cathedral in the formal sense — Methodist churches don’t have bishops’ seats called cathedrals — but a long-standing congregation whose building has become one of the visual anchors of the … Read more

The Ada County Courthouse is the government building in downtown Boise that houses Idaho’s Fourth Judicial District Court for Ada County, along with several county offices. It is a working courthouse, not a museum, but its public lobby and atrium contain a collection of commissioned artwork, including murals, installed as part of the building’s construction. … Read more

Capitol Boulevard is downtown Boise’s principal north-south street. It runs in a nearly straight line from the Idaho State Capitol at its northern end, south across the Boise River, to the edge of the Boise State University campus. It is the closest thing the city has to a ceremonial spine, connecting the seat of Idaho’s … Read more

The Grove Plaza is downtown Boise’s central public square — a brick-paved, gently terraced open space with a fountain at its center, built by the city as a gathering point for events. It hosts a rotating calendar of concerts, markets, festivals, and a seasonal ice rink, and functions much like a town square for the … Read more

Albertsons Stadium is the football stadium of Boise State University, sitting on the university’s campus just south of downtown Boise along the Boise River. Its playing surface is blue rather than green because the university chose to make the color part of its identity when it installed synthetic turf in 1986 — a decision that … Read more

What is the Morrison Center? The Morrison Center for the Performing Arts is Idaho’s largest performing arts facility, built on the campus of Boise State University and owned and operated by the university. It opened in 1984 and functions as the primary home for opera, ballet, orchestral music and touring theatrical productions in the Boise … Read more

The Egyptian Theatre is a 1927 movie palace on Main Street in downtown Boise, built in the Egyptian Revival style that swept American architecture after the 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. It is Egyptian because its owners deliberately borrowed that imagery — columns, winged sun disks, sphinxes — to sell a sense of exotic … Read more

The Boise Depot is the former Union Pacific passenger station built in 1925 on the bench south of downtown, known for its Spanish Mission Revival bell tower. Platt Gardens is the formal, city-maintained lawn and garden that surrounds the depot building and terrace. Together they form one landmark site: a historic building set inside a … Read more