Photograph by Boise City Department of Arts & History ©
Continue restoration and programming at the Erma Hayman House, a public cultural facility in Boise’s River/Myrtle District.
The City of Boise acquired the Hayman House, located at 617 Ash Street, in May 2018. The River Street neighborhood was a working-class section of the city and home to many immigrants including Asian, Greeks, and Basques. By the 1930s, the neighborhood housed about 80 African American families. The Hayman family arrived there in the 1930s, and Erma Hayman lived in the house until her death in 2009. Boise’s Hayman House is a cultural and historic resource which is part of the Department of Arts & History’s Cultural Sites program.
The Cultural Sites program reflects Boise’s dedication to saving, reinventing and promoting historic properties unique to our city’s history and cultural identity. Valuable historic buildings are saved and re-purposed, creating meaningful new opportunities for the community to collaborate and engage in physical spaces that are literally irreplaceable.
Saving and restoring our community’s cultural assets plays an important role in economic development—local and national data shows high return on investment for the type of redevelopment and historic preservation Boise undertakes with its Cultural Sites program.
Help us restore and renovate the Hayman House so we can offer interior and exterior event space, making the space accessible to the community as a cultural and historic resource.
Your donation can help make this possible.