Royal & Cleone Eccles Home

Designed by Eber Piers, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright at the Chicago School of Design, and built in 1920 by Whitmeyr Construction, this home is of a classical Prairie Style. The dark brick, low-pitched gabled roof, ceiling height and windows are premier examples of this style. Born in Ogden in 1884, Royal Eccles, the son of the prominent David & Bertha Eccles, was educated in the Ogden City public schools, University of Michigan Law School and then served a mission for the LDS Church in Germany and Austria in 1909. In 1912 he took up the active practice of law. In 1920 he became the Chief Executive Officer of the Oregon Lumber Company. In 1930 he sold his corporate interests and retired to devote time to his personal affairs. He married Cleone Rich in the Salt Lake Temple, August 22. 1918. They had six children, two sons and four daughters. Royal Eccles died in 1963 and Cleone Eccles died in 1973.*

2508 Jackson Avenue in Eccles Avenue Historic District and in the Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah