Marriner & Dorthea Browning Home

Built in 1914, this traditional Prairie Style home is a premier example of the work of Ogden architect Eber Piers. Marriner Adams Browning was born in 1890 and died in 1966. l le was the son of Matthew S. Browning (brother of John Moses Browning, the gun inventor). His uncle invented the guns and his fathter, Matt, handled the finances. He worked with these two men for 10 years in all business ventures and so it was natural for him to continue the business after their deaths. In 1928, Mr. Browning along with Marriner Eccles (David Eccles’ son) pooled the Eccles and Browning bank interests to form the First Security Bank Corporation. Mr. Browning married Dorothea Bigelow in 1912 and they had two sons. Mrs. Browning was a daughter of Archie P. Bigelow, former President of the Ogden State Bank and builder of the Bigelow/Ben Lomond Hotel. Mrs. Browning was the first of two women drivers in Ogden and was extremely interested in mechanics, which brought her together with her husband whom she used to watch making guns when she was just 12 years old.*

2565 Eccles Avenue in Eccles Avenue Historic District and in the Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah