Jerome Cooperative Creamery

Jerome Cooperative Creamery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Jerome, Idaho
Coordinates	42°43′21″N 114°31′18″W / 42.72250°N 114.52167°WCoordinates: 42°43′21″N 114°31′18″W / 42.72250°N 114.52167°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1915
Built by	Pugh,H. T.
MPS	Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho TR
NRHP Reference #	83002338[1]
Added to NRHP	September 8, 1983

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 in 1983. They were built by master stonemason H.T. Pugh who popularized the use of lava rock in the Jerome area.^[1][2]

The Jerome Cooperative Creamery paid $668,356.70 to local farmers for butterfat in 1926. The creamery produced 1.9 million pounds of butter that year.^[3] In 1939, the creamery paid $1,183,378 got butterfat.^[4] Roy D. Smith was the manager of the creamery for 38 years from the early 1920s until the late 1950s.^[5]

See also

• Photograph by Galen R. Frysinger of 1933 lava rock structure at Jerome Cooperative Creamery

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Idaho
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Jerome County, Idaho

References

1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Nancy Capace (2001). Encyclopedia of Idaho. North American Book Dist. LLC. p. 315. ISBN 0403096065.
3. "Creamery Ships Jerome Produce: Farmers Received $668,356.70 for Butterfat During 1926, Report Shows". The Spokesman Review. February 18, 1927.
4. "Co-Op Creamery Issues Report: Jerome Plant Paid Its Members $1,183,378 For Butterfat Last Year". Lewiston Morning Tribune. March 6, 1940.
5. "Dairy Council Honors Smith". Spokane Daily Chronicle. December 9, 1959.