Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building

Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building

Ephraim United Order Coopertive Building in 1985
Location Main and 1st North Sts., Ephraim, Utah
Coordinates 39°21′41″N 111°35′9″W / 39.36139°N 111.58583°W / 39.36139; -111.58583Coordinates: 39°21′41″N 111°35′9″W / 39.36139°N 111.58583°W / 39.36139; -111.58583
Area less than one acre
Built 1871 (1871)
NRHP Reference # 73001862[1]
Added to NRHP March 20, 1973

The Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building was built in 1871-72 to house a Mormon cooperative store in Ephraim, Utah. The store was established to avoid trading with "gentile" (non-Mormon) merchants, and sold merchandise from the ZCMI co-op in Salt Lake City. The two-story stone building housed to co-op stone on the ground floor and a meeting hall on the upper level. In 1888 the Sanpete Stake Academy was established, using the meeting hall for classes; it became Snow College in 1917.[2]

The front of the building is clad in white oolitic Sanpete limestone on the front with coarser building stone on the other elevations. A steeply-pitched roof runs from front to back with bracketed eaves and eave returns over the three-bay front elevation. The side elevations are four bays wide, with a two-story extension to the rear. The building features the inscription "Ephraim U.O. Mercantile Institution" and a beehive surrounded by "Holiness to the Lord" in an arched panel on the building's front gable. A similarly-constructed stone granary stands nearby on the site.[2]

The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1973.[1] After restoration work the store is operated as a gift shop.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Powell, Kent (August 2, 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Powell, Allan Kent. The Utah Guide. Fulcrum Publishing. p. 189. ISBN 1-55591-114-5.
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