Jens Nielsen House

	Jens Nielsen House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Jens Nielsen House in 2019
Location	192 W. 200 South, Ephraim, Utah
Coordinates	39°21′23″N111°35′30″W / 39.356442°N 111.591604°W Coordinates: 39°21′23″N111°35′30″W / 39.356442°N 111.591604°W
Area	Less than one acre
Built	c.1870
MPS	Scandinavian-American pair-houses
NRHP reference No.	83003191
Added to NRHP	February 1, 1983

Last updated November 14, 2022

The Jens Nielsen House in Ephraim, Utah, is a one-story limestone and adobe pair-house built around 1870. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983^[1] and deemed "significant as an example of Scandinavian vernacular architecture in Utah."^[2]

Structure

The building is an example of what has been termed a "Type IV pair-house", given it has a tripartite plan (appears to have three equal-sized rooms, each with two bays, and an indented porch in the center section. The outside rooms are stone with a coursed ashlar finish; the center section is adobe, plastered over and marked off on the front to resemble stonework. In 1981, the house remained in a similar condition as when it was built, 110 years before, with the only significant change being a shed roof frame extension to the rear.^[2]

The structure was probably built by Jens Christian Nielsen, a Danish-born farmer, around 1870.^[2]

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References

1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
1 2 3 Tom Carter (1981). "Utah State Historical Society Site/Structure Information: Jens Nielsen House". National Park Service . Retrieved March 18, 2018. With photo from 1981.

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[nris-1] 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpdoc-2] 1 2 3 Tom Carter (1981). "Utah State Historical Society Site/Structure Information: Jens Nielsen House". National Park Service . Retrieved March 18, 2018. With photo from 1981.

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