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English: Jan Magnus Brunzell, Sr., immigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1868, following his brother, Frederick Brunzell, who immigrated in 1863. John Brunzell, also known as J.M. Brunzell, operated a hotel in Reynolds, Idaho, and was the local postmaster. He served as a representative from Owyhee County in the Idaho legislature, and later he was elected as an Owyhee County commissioner. Brunzell owned and operated the Grand Hotel in Nampa until it burned in the Nampa fire of 1909. The hotel had been designed in 1904 by Charles F. Hummel, later a partner in Tourtellotte & Hummel. In 1909 J.M. Brunzell commissioned the architecture firm of Tourtellotte & Co. to build the Brunzell House in Boise, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although J.M. Brunzell never lived in the house, it was occupied in 1912 by his nephew, Fred Brunzell, who had purchased the property in 1892.