The Thomas A. Whalen Home

Built in 1889 for Thomas A. Whalen, this home is a Victorian Eclectic/Queen Anne architecture. The house consists of pedimented gables with Queen Anne shingling and half timbering, turned porch posts, one-story, full-width porch with gabled entry and a shingled second story bay. The house is a mirror twin of the house at 2540 Jefferson.

Thomas Whalen came to Utah in 1871 and became a conductor on a Central Pacific passenger train until 1888. Upon retiring from the railroad, he became involved with Commercial National Bank as a member of its executive committee. He sold the “mirror twin” of his home to Oscar E. Hill which was one of his earliest real estate trans- actions. The Whalen family lived in the home until 1918. They sold the home to Joseph L. Carlson, who purchased the home for his daughter, Alta, and her husband Solomon J. Kaplan. Kaplan was President and Manager of the Buchmiller-Kaplan Company, a men’s clothing store in downtown Ogden.

The home was purchased by William Edward in 1929 who resided there for the next 25 years. The home was then sold to Loren K. Mohler. James A. and LeeAnne McGee, and Allen J. and Marguerite Turner who held joint ownership. The property was converted to a four-unit rental property in 1978 and was restored as a single-family home by Dan & Suzy Dailey.

2532 Jefferson Avenue in the Jefferson Avenue Historic District and in Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah.

• mentioned in Jefferson Avenue Historic District:
  Thomas A. Whalen (2532 Jefferson) served on the city council, and was also a member of the executive committee for Commercial National Bank.
  
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  Thomas Whalen (2532 Jefferson) was an active real estate man. He was also involved with the executive committee of Commercial National Bank, served for two years on the Ogden City Council, and was a tax appraiser. He also built the house located at 2540 Jefferson as the mirror twin of his own and in which John Hoxer resided.