Discover the hidden, darker side of Boise’s past with A Macabre History of Boise Tour. Historian Mark Iverson will lead you through the untold stories—the forgotten, the overlooked, and the macabre. From crimes of passion to unsettling electro-shock "therapy" and eerie haunted homes, we’ll take you to the very spots where these shocking events unfolded.

Idahistory's Craft Cocktail & History Walking Tours The Avery Hotel & Brasserie

On the Cocktail & History Walking Tours - The Avery Hotel & Brasserie, we will start our tour bar-side, sitting at the 130 year old Brunswick Bar, the former centerpiece of Boise's historic Bouquet Bar, while enjoying a craft cocktail created with Boise's history in mind. This tour will take you throughout the old Tiner Building, constructed in 1910, to tell you tales of the theaters once inhabiting the lower levels of the structure as well as stories from the Manitou Hotel once calling the upper three floors of the Tiner home. The Avery's staff will tell you the story of the building's restoration and their vision for the establishment's future! Finally, an Idahistory guide will walk you around Boise's historic Business Block, presenting you with its history and the Tiner Building's place in that larger story. We will finish back at The Avery, where discounted drinks can be enjoyed at the conclusion of the tour!

Harlots, Heroines, & Hustlers

Join us for a tour of downtown Boise's not-so-deep underworld! We will be retracing the steps of crooked Davis Levy, Queen Aggie Bush, and Diamond Tooth Lil. We'll even see where temperance and vice met for a biblical afternoon that resulted in death in front of Boise's old City Hall. Matching salacious scandals with thorough legal and moral codes, you'll walk away feeling "intimately" acquainted with the scarlet ladies that worked Boise's streets and alleys from the 1860s to the 1920s.