The Avery

The Avery opened in September 2023 in downtown Boise, a 39-room independent hotel inside the 1910 Tiner building. Chef Cal Elliott and local developer Michael Hormachea led the restoration, which kept original guest-room doors and the Brunswick bar. The hotel is open 365 days a year.

The place

The hotel is at 1010 W Main Street, on the west side of downtown Boise, a part of the center that Elliott and Hormachea set out to revitalize.

The four-story Tiner building was designed in 1910 to offer early 20th-century luxury and opened alongside the Manitou Hotel as a movie theater and hotel. The original hotel name is still visible on the brick. From the late 1970s to the early 2000s it was the Blues Bouquet, a music venue with live bands and card games and, according to local legend, underground boxing matches.

The concept

The hotel takes its name from Averyl, the Tiners' granddaughter, whose name is cut into a sandstone tablet on the facade. The building ran as a theater and hotel until the 1960s, after which the upper three floors sat empty while the ground level served as a theater, a department store and later a bar and nightclub. Other accounts date the last hotel use to 1971.

Chef Cal Elliott, returning to his native Boise, and developer Michael Hormachea partnered on the restoration. Elliott has said the aim was an experience that is unmistakably Boise. The work kept the original guest-room doors and other restored details, so the hotel sits inside one of the city's oldest surviving buildings rather than in new construction. No designer is credited.

Dining & wellness

The Avery Bar + Brasserie is a French-inspired brasserie, with reservations through OpenTable. Tiner's Alley Tavern is a late-night English gastropub, listed as walk-in only. The original Brunswick bar is the centrepiece of the drinking rooms.