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Arthur De Wint Foote (1849–1933) was an American civil engineer and mining engineer who impacted the development of the American West with his innovative engineering works and entrepreneurial ventures.
Foote designed a system with the largest Pelton wheel ever built. But Foote’s interests went beyond engineering. He was an accomplished horticulturalist and designed many acres of Edwardian landscaping around North Star House.
In 1876 Hallock married a young mining engineer, Arthur De Wint Foote, then moved cross-continent to live with him at the New Almaden mine near San Jose, California.
Arthur De Wint Foote (1849 – 1933) was an American civil engineer and mining engineer who impacted the development of the American West with his innovative engineering works and entrepreneurial ventures.
In 1876 Mary Hallock married a mining engineer, Arthur De Wint Foote, and followed him throughout the West as he pursued his career: to various mining camps in Colorado and South Dakota, to Boise, Idaho where he worked on a massive irrigation project and where they lived for twelve years, before moving on to Grass Valley, California, where he ...
The Foote Park Interpretive Center was built to improve the existing Foote Park Site and as a grassroots effort to honor two individuals, Arthur De Wint and Mary Hallock Foote, who had important impacts on the physical and cultural developments of the American West, particularly in Idaho’s Treasure Valley. Arthur was the original designer of ...
This interpretive center honors those pioneers whose cultural and creative contributions helped shape Boise and the surrounding areas. At this site, visitors will find information about Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, Mary Hallock Foote and the art and engineering contributions this couple made to the Old West.
