Jerome Cooperative Creamery

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]

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 cityJerome, Idaho
Coordinates42°43′21″N 114°31′18″W
Arealess than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1915, 1924, 1933
Built byH.T. Pugh
MPSLava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR[1] (64000165)
NRHP reference No.83002338
Added to NRHP8 September 1983[2]

The Jerome Cooperative Creamery paid $668,356.70 (equivalent to $9,652,227 in 2019) 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 $21,750,941 in 2019) 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

References
  1. "National Register Information System – Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "National Register Information System – Jerome Cooperative Creamery". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  3. 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.
  4. Capace, Nancy (2001). Encyclopedia of Idaho. North American Book Dist. p. 315. ISBN 0403096065.
  5. "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.
  6. "Creamery ships Jerome produce: Farmers received $668,356.70 for butterfat during 1926, report shows". The Spokesman Review. 18 February 1927.
  7. "Co-Op creamery issues report: Jerome plant paid its members $1,183,378 for butterfat last year". Lewiston Morning Tribune. 6 Mar 1940.
  8. "Dairy council honors Smith". Spokane Daily Chronicle. 6 Dec 1959.
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