The John G. Tyler Home

Built between 1888-1891, the residence is a premier example of the Queen Anne style. It features the steeply pitched cross-gable roof and pediments, window bays on the second story and a wide veranda and porte cochere. Fish-scale shingles adorn the main front gable and side gable along with pressed metal decoration, wooden shingles and clapboard siding. The building is a 2 1/2 story frame structure on a sandstone foundation.

John G. Tyler conducted a “profitable hotel enterprise” in connection with the Beardsley Hotel from 1875-1887. He was then appointed Ogden City Postmaster, a position he held until 1890 when he was elected to the office of the Weber County Recorder. He later became an office employee of the Utah Construction Company.

In 1907, Charles F. Osgood acquired the home. Dr. Osgood was a physician and surgeon who had offices in the First National Bank Building and the Eccles Building in Ogden. Osgood lived here until 1916 when he was tragically murdered by a mentally disturbed former patient who shot the physician in his car as he was preparing to return home from the Eccles Building. Alexander Rankin McIntyre lived in the home from 1918 until 1924. McIntyre was president of McIntyre Drug Company which had two stores in downtown Ogden. Walter Nelson Cleveland owned the property from 1924 until his death in 1925.

Robert H. Hinckley owned the home from 1928 until 1960. Hinckley was one of Ogden’s most prominent citizens. He was director of the Chamber of Commerce, president of the Rotary Club and vice-president of the Utah Pacific Airways, helping to develop the Ogden Airport. Hinckley and Ed Noble teamed up to purchase and reorganize a network that would later be known as the American Broadcasting Company. ABC merged with United Paramount Theaters where Hinckley served as Vice President until his retirement in the 1960’s.

Hinckley’s wife Abrelia Clarissa Seely Hinckley was the founder and member of the First Board of Directors of the Ogden YWCA and a member of the Ogden Soroptimist Club, a women’s business organization. She was also the first president of the Utah Wool Growers Association Women’s Auxiliary and was a member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and the Altruist Club.

It is one of the few homes on the Jefferson block that was not split up into apartments.

2560 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:
  Robert H. Hinckley (2560 Jefferson) was one of Ogden’s most prominent citizens who was recognized for local, state, and national achievement. He established the Hinckley Dodge automobile dealership in Ogden, was a director of the Chamber of Commerce, president of the Rotary Club, and helped develop the Ogden Airport and was a vice-president of Utah Pacific Airways. With his political success, he was asked to join the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and the Director of Contracts Settlement. He established the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah. He and Ed Noble worked together to purchase the RCA network and reorganize it as the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).
  
  also,
  Abrelia Clarissa Seely Hinckley (2560 Jefferson) was also a contributing person in Ogden. She was a founder of the first Board of Directors of the Ogden YWCA, and also the first president of the
  Utah Wool Growers Association Women’s Auxiliary.

John G. Tyler Home

John G. Tyler, who was at various times a postmaster, manager of the Broom Hotel, County Recorder and Purchasing Agent for the Utah Construction Company, had this home built in 1898, and it is located in the heart of the Jefferson District.

The home is a premier example of the Queen Anne architectural style, which highlights wooden decoration and massive scale. The style of the architecture, the scale of the building and its massiveness clearly put this home within the context of the surrounding properties which contribute to the overall ambiance of the Jefferson District.