Leroy & Myrtle Eccles Home (Weber Club)

This home was built at a cost of more than $100,000 in 1917 for LeRoy & Myrtle Eccles. Leslie Hodgson was the architect of this premier example of residential Italian Renaissance. LeRoy Eccles was powerful in the sugar industry and was vice-president and general manager of the Amalgamated Sugar Company. He was also involved with the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railroad, the Sumpter Valley Railroad Company, the Empire Copper Company, and served as President and Director for the First National Bank and Ogden Savings Bank. The home was later sold after business reversals to E.G. Harness in 1928. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Harness was in the nursery business. He died in 1956 at the age of 96; Mrs. Harness died in 1942. A nephew, William C. Harness, owned the house after their deaths. In 1959, the home was sold to the Weber Club (a private club), at which time significant remodeling and improvements were made. Kier Corporation purchased the building in 1982 and remodeled it, pulling back much of the elegance of the original mansion. The building has been used as a restaurant, meeting rooms, wedding reception center, etc.*

2509 Eccles Avenue in Eccles Avenue Historic District and in the Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah