It was 1979 when potato king J.R. Simplot built a 7,370-square-foot, Mediterranean-style mansion atop a prominent hill in the Boise Highlands. Although the mansion has since been demolished, Simplot’s ...

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BOISE – An iconic Boise home will soon be no more. The Simplot family announced today that the mansion of potato magnate J.R. Simplot will be torn down. Simplot died in 2008. The house along Bogus ...

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BOISE – Idaho aims to return the hilltop mansion to the Simplot family by June 30 in a tentative agreement over the would-be governor’s residence-turned-money pit that remained vacant even as ...

Agriculture is the focus of the University of Idaho’s first endowed deanship. The J.R. Simplot Family Foundation has made a “significant gift” to establish the J.R. Simplot Endowed Dean of the College ...

This artist’s rendering of the J.R. Simplot Co. headquarters shows the view from the corner of Front and 11th Streets looking southeast. luceror Provided by J.R. Simplot Co. The J.R. Simplot Co. isn’t ...

CALDWELL — Community members and leaders including farmers, executives, and generations of the Simplot family gathered on Friday afternoon to celebrate the agribusiness retail company’s 80 years of ...

BOISE -- The Simplot Family Foundation is deciding what to do next when it comes to a major project in downtown Boise. Boise's Design Review Committee denied Jack's Urban Meeting Place, or JUMP, ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Simplot family’s hilltop mansion that briefly served as the residence of the Idaho governor, will soon be demolished, a spokesman said Monday. Work to remove the ...