The J. C. Penney Company Building located at 104 S. Rail Street in

Shoshone, Idaho Shoshone ( ) is the county seat and largest city of Lincoln County, Idaho, United States. The population was 1,653 at the 2020 census. In contrast to the Shoshone Native American tribe for which it is named, the city's name is correctly pron ...

, is a historic

department store A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store under one roof, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store mad ...

building. It was built in 1918 by stonemason

Ignacio Berriochoa Ignacio Ygnatil Berriochoa (July 31, 1865 - May 17, 1949) was a skilled stonemason in Lincoln County, Idaho. (incomplete, omits building-specific passages) He was born in the Basque region of Spain and moved to Idaho in 1904. He lived in Shosho ...

. The building was identified in a Thematic Resource study, "Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho thematic group", and it was listed on the

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on September 8, 1983.

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Buildings and structures in Lincoln County, Idaho Commercial buildings completed in 1918 Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho Economy of Idaho Department stores on the National Register of Historic Places JCPenney National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, Idaho Lava rock buildings and structures {{LincolnCountyID-NRHP-stub

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