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History · Kendrick
4 landmarks tell Kendrick’s storyThe public archives hold only 3 old photos of Kendrick. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
3 old photos & papers
4 historic places
From Kendrick’s archive · credits on each photo
What stands out about Kendrick’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Kendrick’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kendrick’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. On the National Register 4 listings protect 24 historic buildings The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
24
each building in a district counts
first listed
1999
Thomas Kirby House
Architectural styles listings Queen Anne 1
All 4 listings National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
The story How Kendrick came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Kendrick.
Read it all → Founded as Latah or Latah City in 1889 by Thomas Kirby, a post office was established on May 24 with Kirby as the postmaster.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
At a glance
Half its homes built before 1944
Oldest landmark with a date Kendrick Fraternal Temple, 1905
Oldest item in the archive 1870
People in 2020 288 The houses today → By decade Kendrick, decade by decade 3 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1920s–1980s nothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these years Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view Portrait of woman and man, Kendrick, Idaho, c. 1870s-1900s, 1870 Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Kendrick’s page.
Retake this view · +15 Memory lane What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Kendrick? → Who remembers Kendrick in the 1950s? → A family story from old Kendrick → Does anyone have photos of Kendrick from the 1980s? →
From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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