J.M. Wilbur Company Blacksmith Shop

The J.M. Wilbur Company Blacksmith Shop, built in 1895 by Jesse Wilbur and restored 2011-2014, is a brick, one-part block commercial building with a stepped gable parapet and Late Victorian Commercial details. The building is historically significant because of the essential blacksmith and related services the shop provided to local farmers and others in the Ogden Valley. Following Jesse Wilbur’s death in 1951, his son Glenn carried on the business for two more decades. The building was originally designed and constructed to be a blacksmith shop – a once very common and necessary business in frontier life – and is the only known continuously functioning blacksmith shop remaining in the region. Following a recent careful restoration, the building continues to operate as a blacksmith shop today.

2143 North 5500 East in Eden, Utah