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H.M. Hooker Memorial Hall

Paddock Avenue

Devastating Fire – June 1994

Used as the home of Weiser High School until 1967 when a new building was erected nearby.

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This was marked, “Men around Mr. Hooker“. We’re assuming that is a portrait of H.M. Hooker.

In 1920, the finest building on the campus was built through the benevolence of his two daughters, Mrs. Fannie (Hooker) Forbes of Westboro, Massachusetts and Mary (Hooker) Dole of Oak Park, Illinois donated $100,000 in memory of their father, H.M. Hooker. This is the building that the Museum is in.

From Lisa Harris McKnight – Weiser Museum Facebook Group – Sept 14, 2022

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The Intermountain Institute in Weiser, also known as the Idaho Industrial Institute, was a school which included facilities for students boarding there. Its complex of buildings are unusual in being constructed of continuously cast concrete during a span of about 20 years.

The complex includes nine buildings and structures which were deemed contributing in a National Register of Historic Places listing in 1979.

They include Hooker Hall which is architecturally, the “most pretentious” of the buildings; plans were afoot in 1979 for it to become the home of something. In fact since 2019 it has been the home of the Snake River Heritage Center and the Weiser Museum

Year of construction: 1907; Historic function: Education; Historic subfunction: School; Educational Related Housing Criteria: architecture/engineering, person.

From Wikipedia – the Free Encyclopedia

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H. M. Hooker Memorial Hall, the Institute’s administration and classroom building and the most pretentious building on the campus with its five-story clock tower, was completed in 1924 at a cost of $100,000. It was built in memory of H. M. Hooker, a close friend of Headmaster Paddock, whose daughters, Mrs. Fannie Hooker Forbes of Westboro, Massachusetts and Mrs. Mary Hooker Dole of Oak Park, Illinois, contributed the funds for its construction.

Besides offices and twenty-two “recitation rooms,” Hooker Hall contained a modern auditorium as well as wood working shops in the basement.

A local historical association is interested in acquiring the structure and using it as a museum.

The structure is three stories high on a tall basement, with a hip-and-ridge roof and flat sills and lintels.

It is rectangular and symmetrical with outset corner bays and four multi-light transomed windows on either side of the entry pavilion.

This pavilion is approached by a flight of concrete steps and contains a segmentally-arched entry with wooden double doors retaining their original hardware; the dedication to H. M. Hooker is set in stone letters in the concrete landing.

The tower is flanked by pairs of hipped dormers; its open belvedere is surmounted by clock faces on all four sides.

From SlocomHall.org

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