Dykes Sorensen House

The Dykes Sorensen House, at 2nd East St. in Ephraim, Utah, is a pair-house built around 1865–1875. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

Dykes Sorensen House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	2nd East St., Ephraim, Utah
Coordinates	39.354251°N 111.582177°W / 39.354251; -111.582177
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	c.1865–1875
MPS	Scandinavian-American Pair-houses TR
NRHP reference No.	82001756[1]
Added to NRHP	October 20, 1982

The house was deemed "architecturally significant as an example of Scandinavian folk building design in Utah." It is a one-story adobe house which is a modified version of a pair-house (usually three rooms wide). Its plan and its facade's fenestration is consistent with the pair-house style, although this was only built two rooms wide; perhaps Sorensen had intended to complete it out as a full pair-house later.[2] It is termed a "Type IV" pair-house, and has an indented porch in what would be its center section (if the third room was added to the south end).[2]

Dykes Sorensen was a Danish farmer about whom not much is known; he obtained the deed for this property in 1871.[2]

It is located at 302 S. 200 East in Ephraim. It faces east, and its property is located on the southwest corner of E. 300 South and S. 200 East.<ref>Google Streetview, imagery capture date August 2008, accessed November 7, 2019.