Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building

The Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building is a historic commercial building in downtown Ephraim, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building
Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building (southwest corner), 1985
Location96 North Main Street
(U.S. Route 89)
Ephraim, Utah
United States
Coordinates39°21′41″N 111°35′9″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1871 (1871)
NRHP reference No.73001862[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 20, 1973

Description
Looking across East 100 North at the northeast corner of the Ephraim United Order Mercantile Institution, 1985

The building is located at 96 North Main Street (U.S. Route 89), on the corner with East 100 North. It was built in 1871-72 to house a Mormon cooperative store in community. 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 a co-op store 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 one-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]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Powell, Kent (August 2, 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building". 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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