Lifting Home on Corner of Mackay Main Street and Spruce to Add A Basement - Circa 1910

Dentist O.B, Wade had the big house on the corner of Mackay Main Street and Spruce raised up and a basement added with its own outside entrance building circa 1910. The house was used as the US Forest Service Office after that.

This house became the Hazel Lundberg home in 1937 where she and daughter, Marjorie Christine Lundberg ran a boarding house with 2 apartments in the basement.The little building nestled between the main house and the side of the two-story Custer Hotel is a separate entrance to the lower portion of the home. Hazel Lundberg House at 316 Main Street with Uresti House (now the Bear Bottom Inn in 2013) and Custer Hotel in 1965 (below)

Custer Hotel and American Theatre were razed after the 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake. Monica and Shawn built the Rocking Horse Dance Studio and garages at the location after 1991.

Shawn and Monica Nelson Home, now being rented.

Mostly Cloudy All Day in Mackay Idaho - February 16 2013

Mackay  Library and Women's Club, Lost Rivers Museum (former Community Church), and Bear Bottom Inn (former Uresti House) February 16 2013.

Now and Before Mackay Main Street - Masonic Hall Location - Don't forget to double click on the photo to make it larger and clearer

Bear Bottom Inn Bar Stools 1996

The Bear Bottom Inn was the clever idea of Barbara Chaffin and her daughter, Margie VanOrden. Bar stools carved by Allen Herres.

Bear Bottom Inn was the Uresti Home

This is the building that now houses the Bear Bottom Inn on Spruce. The house was the home of the Uresti Family.  Circa 1983, the porch was removed because it was falling down. The porch posts are now on the porch at 308 Cedar Avenue. Note the large cottonwood trees that thrived because an irrigation ditch ran the length of the Spruce. When the irrigation ditch was taken out, all of the cottonwoods died.

Bear Bottom Inn Before 1996

The building on Spruce where the Bear Bottom Inn is located today was the Uresti Home prior to this photo. Note the Hazel Lundberg Home on the corner of Spruce and Main. This photo was May 1983.

Mackay's Bear Bottom Inn Opens Motel For Season March 6 2010

Located on Spruce between Main Street and Capitol. Call 208-589-8939 For Reservations.