Amos and Eva Corey Home

Built in 1884, the Amos and Eva Corey home is an elaborate cross-wing design with a variety of Victorian and pre-Victorian picturesque elements. The building fronts on 26th Street and has hand-painted brick and a semi-hexagonal bay window projecting off the 1st and 2nd floor together. The front façade takes on a general “Eastlake” appearance with black mortar used throughout the exterior.

Amos Corey purchased the home in 1884 from William Wheelwright. Mr. Corey was a first generation Utah Pioneer and ran a livery, boarding and sales stable to the south of the current site of the City/County Building on Washington Boulevard.

The home was purchased by Ethel Piper 15 years after Corey’s death. She retained ownership of the home as late as 1953. After years as a five-plex, Ogden City purchased it to be restored as a single family home. It was then sold to Tyler & Jessica Hollon who completed its restoration. It has been renovated to include an underground garage and garden space on the west side of the property.

2601 Jefferson Avenue in the Jefferson Avenue Historic District and in Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah

Built in 1883 by Amos Corey, the house is a two-story, cross-wing building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Corey was a railroad contractor, owner of Corey’s Livery and Feed Stables in downtown Ogden, and, with his brothers, started the predecessor of the Utah Construction Company. He died in 1922; his family stayed in the house until 1937. The home was once divided into apartments, but the current owners are restoring it to a single-family residence.*