East Side Downtown Historic District


The East Side Downtown Historic District in Pocatello, Idaho is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The district includes 12 contributing building in a area roughly including the 200 and 300 blocks of E. Center St., the 100 block of N. Second Ave. and the 100 block of S. Second Ave. in Pocatello.
Two buildings in the district were designed by architect Frank H. Paradice, Jr.; a couple were built by local builder Alex Mathers.
Per a daughter, architect Francis Charles Woods designed "the Auditorium" in Pocatello, Idaho. Assuming that's correct, it would be the Auditorium Opera House, either the 1893 reconstruction of an earlier opera house that was damaged in a fire, but which itself was destroyed in a fire in October 1899, or the 1900 new construction in brick. This, like some other Woods works, was Italianate in style, although the front was later modified in Art Deco style, but the Italianate styling can still be seen in its side wall along the alley running beside it. After another fire in 1939, the building was converted into a furniture store, which remained in 1994.
Contributing buildings in the district include: