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 ...

This story was updated Tuesday, April 1, to add two paragraphs of comment from the city of Boise. Change may be coming soon to Simplot Hill, the site just off Bogus Basin Road where the mansion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2010, the food processing factory’s long-term viability was in doubt, suffering from slowing consumer demand for Simplot’s Birdseye brand frozen vegetable products, a distressed balance sheet and ...

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