Hyrum Stake Office/Tithing Office/U.S. Post Office
Originally built as the United Order store with smaller tithing offices next door to the west, by the late 1800s this building was used as the stake tithing office. The center of the community’s economic life, it was virtually the only center of trade and exchange in most Mormon pioneer settlements during the last decades of the 1800s. Usually a place in the center of the village, it was the central agency for the expenditure or disposal of one’s tithes, be it cattle, butter, wheat, hay, potatoes, or honey.
Shortly after Hyrum Stake was organized, the need for a stake office, a high council room, and other stake facilities became apparent. In 1910, a stake building consisting of a president’s office, high council room, stake board room, supply room with a large steel vault, furnace room in the basement, and a large upstairs room was constructed by the Jeff Brothers of Logan. This building served the needs of the Hyrum Stake until 1951, when it was sold to Maud Liljenquist and for a time was the U.S. Post Office for Hyrum.1 In 2006, Dr. Lance Gunnell completed a major addition to the building allowing several medical practices to operate out of the space.
26 West Main Street in Hyrum, Utah
