The John L. and Elizabeth Dalton Home

In 1886, Elizabeth Dalton purchased property and later that same year, took out a loan to begin construction of this house. Elizabeth and her husband, John were the parents of eleven children. John Dalton was a partner in the Dalton, Nye and Cannon Store, located at 2376 Washington Boulevard. The business sold books and music and later expanded to include furniture and stoves.

In 1890, John married a plural wife in Mexico, just shortly before the birth of his eleventh child with his first wife Elizabeth. In 1892, he left, taking along his second wife, Amy, to serve as the president of the California Mission for the LDS Church. John resided with Amy the remainder of his life in Pocatello, Idaho.
Elizabeth Dalton resided in the house until 1899, selling the house to James L. Porter. Mrs. Dalton moved to a slightly smaller house at 1153-24th Street, where she resided until a few years before her death in 1931.

The Dalton House is architecturally significant as one of the best of only a few extant examples of the Second Empire architectural style still standing in Utah. The style was typically associated with urban locations throughout the United States and was a popular style between 1870 and 1900 in the state. Elements of the Second Empire style contained in this house include the rectangular massing of the house, with its central pavilion, along with the concave mansard roof and dormer windows.

The Dalton House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and on the Ogden City Register of Historic Resources in 1989 and is located at 2622 Madison Avenue in Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah.