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 – 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 ...

Work began Monday to remove J.R. Simplot’s mansion from a hill west of Bogus Basin Road, said Ken Dey, spokesman for the Simplot family. The giant American flag atop the hill, recently removed, will ...

BOISE -- After much consideration and public input, the State is giving the Governor's mansion back to the Simplot family. At a hearing in October, Idahoans voiced their thoughts on the vacant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Simplot family has just announced that it will demolish the late J.R. Simplot’s longtime hilltop home, starting today. “The home has been vacant for more than a decade, and the family has decided ...

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 ...