Jerome Cooperative Creamery
Jerome Cooperative Creamery | |
 The building's exterior in 2012 | |
  Jerome Cooperative Creamery Location of Jerome Cooperative Creamery in Idaho  Jerome Cooperative Creamery Jerome Cooperative Creamery (the United States) | |
| Nearest city | Jerome, Idaho |
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| Coordinates | 42°43′21″N 114°31′18″W / 42.72250°N 114.52167°W |
| Area | less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1915, 1924, 1933 |
| Built by | H.T. Pugh |
| MPS | Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR[1] (64000165) |
| NRHP reference No. | 83002338 |
| Added to NRHP | 8 September 1983[2] |
The Jerome Cooperative Creamery is a cooperative creamery and also refers to historic lava rock structures used by the creamery on Birch Street in Jerome, Idaho, United States. The structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983.[2][3] They were built in 1915, 1924, and 1933 by master stonemason H.T. Pugh who popularized the use of lava rock in the Jerome area.[4][5]
The Jerome Cooperative Creamery paid $668,356.70 (equivalent to $11,502,771 in 2023) to local farmers for butterfat in 1926. The creamery produced 1,900,000 pounds (860,000 kg) of butter that year.[6] In 1939, the creamery paid $1,183,378 (equivalent to $25,921,074 in 2023) for butterfat.[7] Roy D. Smith was the manager of the creamery for 38 years from the early 1920s until the late 1950s.[8]
See also[edit]
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Idaho
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Jerome County, Idaho
References[edit]
- ^ "National Register Information System – Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System – Jerome Cooperative Creamery". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ Posey–Ploss, Marian (8 Sep 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR". National Park Service. Retrieved 10 Feb 2020.
- ^ Capace, Nancy (2001). Encyclopedia of Idaho. North American Book Dist. p. 315. ISBN 0403096065.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Jerome Cooperative Creamery". National Park Service. 8 Sep 1983. Retrieved 28 Aug 2016. With a photo from 1980.
- ^ "Creamery ships Jerome produce: Farmers received $668,356.70 for butterfat during 1926, report shows". The Spokesman Review. 18 February 1927.
- ^ "Co-Op creamery issues report: Jerome plant paid its members $1,183,378 for butterfat last year". Lewiston Morning Tribune. 6 Mar 1940.
- ^ "Dairy council honors Smith". Spokane Daily Chronicle. 6 Dec 1959.
External links[edit]
Media related to Jerome Cooperative Creamery at Wikimedia Commons- Photograph by Galen R. Frysinger of 1933 lava rock structure at Jerome Cooperative Creamery
- 1915 establishments in Idaho
- Buildings and structures in Jerome County, Idaho
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho
- Industrial buildings completed in 1915
- Lava rock buildings and structures
- National Register of Historic Places in Jerome County, Idaho
- Idaho building and structure stubs