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| Photo by Lauriann Wakefield |
At right rear, apparently originally detached from the main house, but now connected to it by a shed-roofed section, is a hip-roofed “square cabin" form. There is still another hipped one story section, smaller than the cabin, at left rear. The former Hoge house, built in the 1880’s is a complex and much revised mansard-roofed house, the main sections of which conform to a T-plan and I-proportions. The narrow end of the rectangular main block faces front at left. An ell of equal height emerges at right. The main entrance at the intersection is through a later outset porch with round-arched portals and long swept eave. There is another such porch facing forward on the right side of the ell; an elevated concrete deck connects the two porches. The original brick masonry, faintly visible on the rear of the house, has been covered with stucco.
The main block retains a handsome bracketed and coffered Italianate bay in the front elevation; above it a balcony door with double round-arched lights emerges from the mansard; it is framed with scroll-sawn millwork and topped with an odd, steep, hip-and-ridged cap.· Dormer windows in the ell are gable-headed. Down stairs windows are straightforward two-over-two sash. The mansard retains its double eaves, and, on the main block, its small paired curvilinear brackets.
The house appears to be in sound condition.
The Hoge house is architecturally significant as one of Paris' more complex ,which seemed to have received its distinctive roofline independent of the construction of its main blocks. The series of additions and remodeling on this 1880 house extend to 1929 and thus, it presents a good continued use and periodic development of an early brick structure.
Wallace Elliot’s 18&4 History of the Idaho Territory, an interesting, if not always accurate source of images of early houses, includes a drawing of Walter Hoge's residence as an L-shaped house with stilted Italianate bay and raised running porch with balustrade, and featuring a gable roof. An 1883 reference in the Bear Lake Democrat states that Hoge was "making an addition to his brick house” and was erecting a frame house on the same lot.
The porch base still shows on the present form of the house between the two thirties arches. The "square cabin” portion to the rear is most probably that separate frame dwelling mentioned in the paper. It is possible that its Y construction coincided with Hoge’ s response to a "call from authority” to marry again, and that this house was joined to the main block at a later date. Due to Elliott's illustration, it seems clear that the mansard roof was also added after the house had its nearly final shape. With the addition of the more exotic roofline, which not only created a stylistic change but gave the house an added half-story, the Hoge house came to resemble the Tueller mansards built around 1887. Its wedge-roofed upper door in the elaborate bracketing is a detail not found on any of the others.
Walter Hoge came to Paris in the 1870’s and, at various times, was county sheriff, editor of the Southern Idaho Independent, had a land office , ran a lumber mill in nearby Liberty, and was active in the Paris Cooperative Institution.(Bear Lake Democrat, 23 June 1883)
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