Wives of Charles C. Rich Historic District

Historic district in Idaho, United States

United States historic place


Wives of Charles C. Rich Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


42°13′26″N 111°24′12″W / 42.22389°N 111.40333°W / 42.22389; -111.40333
Area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
MPS	Paris MRA
NRHP reference No.	82000318^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 18, 1982

The Wives of Charles C. Rich Historic District is a 10 acres (4.0 ha) historic district including four similar houses in Paris, Idaho. The houses were for the plural wives of Charles C. Rich, "the chief colonizer of Paris."^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

The listing includes four houses and a barn, all possibly built in the late 1860s. The four houses were nearly identical one-story adobe brick cabins with lateral gabled roofs, hip-roofed front porches, and end chimneys.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Idaho State Historical Society Inventory: Wives of Charles C. Rich Historic District". National Park Service. 1982. Retrieved October 11, 2017. With photo from c.1880 and five photos from 1979.