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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. 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. 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. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1973. After restoration work the store is operated as a gift shop. National Register of Historic Places listings in Sanpete County, Utah Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. UT-106, "Ephraim United Order Mercantile Institution, Main & First North Streets, Ephraim, Sanpete County, UT", 6 photos, 12 data pages, 1 photo caption page
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When was Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building listed on the National Register?
Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1973.
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Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building is recorded as the civil_war era, specifically around 1871.
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