The Heigho Residence, now the Heartland Inn, is a three-story Georgian Revival house, which was designed at the time by H.W. Bond a prominent architect from Weiser.
Heigho House
History
The main house was originally built by Colonel Edgar Heigho in 1911 for his family’s residence. Colonel Heigho was the founder of New Meadows and president of the P& IN Railroad. He bought and mapped the land that is currently New Meadows, naming the streets after family members. Heigho continued to bring development to the town through the railroad. He built the train depot (which now serves as the town’s History Museum) and built Hotel Heigho, which burned down in 1929.
Born in 1867 in England, Heigho was a “self-made man”, leaving home at 14, working in freight, on the railroad, as a clerk, in traffic management, as a bookkeeper, manager and eventually becoming president and general manager of the Central Idaho Telegraph & Telephone Company, president and general manager of the Coeur d’Or Development Company, owning the New Meadows town site and the Hotel Heigho, vice president and a director of the Weiser National Bank at Weiser, Idaho, and a director of the Meadows Valley Bank at New Meadows, as well as president of the P& IN Railroad. It is unknown what eventually became of Heigho and his family…
Heigho House
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