Résumé

Principal, Tourtellotte and Company, Building Contractors, Boise, ID, 1890-1892.

Principal, Tourtellotte and Company, Architects, Boise, ID, c. 1892-1910.

Partner, Tourtellotte and [Charles Frederick] Hummel, Architects, Boise, ID, 1910-1935; in 1910, a satellite office opened in Lewiston, ID (although this closed in 1911), and, in 1913, one began in Portland, OR. Tourtellotte presided over the Portland branch. After World War I, he and Charles Hummel severed their partnership, although each retained the old firm name. In 1922, Charles's son, Frederick Konrad Hummel, joined Tourtellotte in Portland; he worked here until the bad economic times forced its closure in 1935. In 1923, Tourtellotte and Hummel practiced in Rooms #311-312 of the Failing Building in Portland. (See Portland, Oregon, City Directory, 1923, p. 1694.)

Principal, John E. Tourtellotte, Architect, Portland, c. 1935-1937.

Partner, Tourtelotte and [Truman] Phillips, Architects, OR, 1937-1939.

Relocation

Born in East Thompson, CT, John Tourtellotte was raised in an established family of French Huguenot descent. He served an apprenticeship between c. 1886 and 1888 with Cutting and Bishop, architects working in Webster, MA. With this experience he drifted West over the next two years, working sporadically on construction sites in Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Albuquerque, NM, and Pueblo, CO, gaining design and engineering experience with each new job. He settled in Boise, ID, by 1890, and founded his own architectural design and construction company. He confined his practice to design in the early-to-mid-1890s, developing a wide client base in a city growing due to mining prosperity. While maintaining the Boise office, Tourtellotte opened a new branch in Portland, OR, in 1913, and remained here for the last 26 years of his life. He died in Portland, in 1939, but was buried in the Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise.

Parents

His parents were Hannah Jane Leach Tourtellotte (d. 04/09/1914) and Charles Wesley Tourtellotte (d. 02/07/1916)

Spouse

Tourtellotte married Della Wallace Tourtellotte (1893-1946).

Children

He and Della had two children, Neal and Ralph (1899-1977).

• East Thompson, CT (Architect's Birth)
  East Thompson, CT

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• Portland, OR (Architect's Death)
  Portland, OR

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