John Everett Tourtellotte (February 22, 1869 – May 8, 1939) was a prominent western American architect, best known for his projects in Idaho. His work in Boise included the Idaho State Capitol, the Boise City National Bank, the Carnegie Library, and numerous other buildings for schools, universities, churches, and government institutions. From 1922 to 1930, he worked in Portland, Oregon. He was associated with partnerships John E. Tourtellotte & Company and Tourtellotte & Hummel, based in Boise. Works by these firms were covered in a 1982 study and many of the buildings were immediately or later listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Early years Tourtellotte was born in East Thompson, Connecticut, to a well-respected French Huguenot family. His father, Charles W. Tourtellotte, was a prosperous farmer and grist-mill owner. At age 17, he enrolled as an apprentice to the architectural firm of Cutting & Bishop, based in Webster, Massachusetts, where he studied architectural drawing for two years. During this time, he supervised roof construction for the Butler Insane Asylum in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Anne & Hope factory in Lonsdale, the largest factory in the United States. Following his apprenticeship, Tourtellotte travelled westward, working on construction projects in Chicago, Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Pueblo, Colorado, before arriving in Boise in 1890, months after Idaho achieved statehood. Idaho and Oregon His architectural and construction business thrived in Boise, and by 1894, Tourtellotte devoted his business entirely to architecture. In 1903, he formed a partnership with German immigrant Charles Hummel (1857–1939), a university-trained architect who had previously worked for Tourtellotte's architecture and construction business. "Charles Hummel, born in Germany in 1857, became the unspecified but probably indispensable second partner in the firm Tourtellotte & Company in 1900. He became a named partner in 1910, and was left fully responsible for the Boise operation when Tourtellotte went to Portland in 1913." "After 1900 it becomes increasingly difficult to attribute designs specifically to Tourtellotte, given that most of his energies were devoted to promotion. Hummel was probably the chief designer of the greater share of the key works between 1900 and 1920." "The community development hotels, a major accomplishment of Tourtellotte's little-documented Oregon years, were a direct reflection of [his persuasive business] skills. They were so valued that, when he and Charles Hummel severed most of the connections between their Portland and Boise offices in 1922. Tourtellotte retained ten percent of