This building was built by Win. W. Ercanbrack, one of Provo’s most successful businessmen of the early 20th Century.

William W. Ercanbrack had been the president and manager of the New York Clothing Co., originally located on University Avenue. The company relocated by 1912 to 154 which had been the George Passey and Co. Dry goods store since 1903. When the New York Company went out of business in 1916, one of the slaesmen, Lorenzo A. Christiansen, opened his own men’s clothing store in the building. Ercanbrack went back to farming and wool growing – with which he did very well. In

1925 Ercanbrack and his son Sterling M. took over the clothing business from Christenson and opened Ercanbrack and Son – Men’s Ladies and Children’s Outfitters. About this time they built this building.

154 West Center Street in Provo, Utah

This two-story plus mezzanine brick building dominated the block in which it stands. The symmetrical tight structure has five long narrow windows on the upper floor. The next level of the façade was covered over with metal panels by the 1940s and has since been recovered with aluminum sheeting which extends onto the building to the west which has been made a part of this structure.

A metal overhang has replaced the former awning and the entrance has been reworked and rebricked in a different color from the original.