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Ogden by Address

21 Wednesday Apr 2021

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Places I’ve documented in Ogden, Utah – sorted by their address.

1200 West

1140 West

2nd Street

4th Street

9th Street

12th Street

17th Street

20th Street

21st Street

22nd Street

2250 South

23rd Street

24th Street

25th Street

26th Street

27th Street

28th Street

30th Street

31st Street

32nd Street

34th Street

900 South

Adams Avenue (formerly Spring Street)

Binford Street

Canfield Drive

Canyon Road

Chambers St

Childs Avenue

Doxey Street

Eccles Avenue

Exchange Road

Grant Avenue

Harrison Blvd

Jackson Avenue (formerly 1st East Street)

Jefferson Avenue (formerly Smith Street)

Kiesel Avenue

Lewis Peak Drive

Lincoln Avenue

Madison Avenue (formerly Pearl Street)

Monroe Boulevard (formerly Green Street)

Ogden Avenue

Ogden Canyon Road

Quincy Avenue (formerly East Street)

Rushton Street

Van Buren Avenue (formerly 2nd East Street)

Wall Avenue

Washington Blvd

Farr’s Fort

16 Friday Apr 2021

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Across Mill Creek is the location of the five acre Farr’s Fort. It was erected in 1850 by Lorin Farr, Ezra Chase, Ambrose Shaw, John Shaw, Charles Hubbard and others settlers to protect themselves from Indian attacks. The fort was enclosed on the east, south and west by houses joined end to end, facing inward. The spaces between the houses were picketed with poles and extending upward some 12 feet, the north wall was never completed. Nearly all the settlers on the north side of Ogden River lived in this fort at one time. Lorin Farr moved into town in 1853 and shortly thereafter the fort was completely abandoned.

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1051 East Canyon Road in Ogden, Utah

N 41.24123 W 111.95168

Union Station

30 Sunday Aug 2020

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Union Station in Ogden is a historic train station located at 2501 Wall Ave in Ogden, Utah. It is in the Lower 25th Street Historic District. It is now several museums and more. The building was constructed in 1869 and reconstructed after a 1924 fire.

Following the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869, four locations were vying for the honor of being the junction for railroad travel in the intermountain West. Within a short time the sites of Promontory’arid Uintah were eliminated. The city of Corrine, founded by non-Mormons in 1869, and the Mormon town of Ogden, established in 1850, soon became rivals as the transportation center.

In November 1869, the Central Pacific purchased forty-seven miles of line from the Union Pacific and leased a remaining six miles to the wooden one-story depot constructed by the Union Pacific in Ogden. As the Utah Northern Railroad pushed north from Ogden in the late 1870’s, the gentile city of Corinne fell into decay.

In 1874 the Ogden City Council passed a resolution appropriating $5,000 “for the purpose of effecting a settlement in relation to establishing the permanent junction at Ogden.” The following year, 1875, Brigham Young deeded 130 acres of land to the railroad companies for the erection of a Union Depot. Eleven years later, in 1886, Charles Francis Adams, President of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, announced plans for the erection of the depot. The impressive depot was dedicated July 31, 1889.

By 1889 Ogden had become the hub of a network of railroad lines: It was the western terminus for the Union Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande railroads; the eastern terminus of the Central Pacific; the southern terminus of the Utah Northern, which extended through Idaho to Montana where it connected with the Oregon Short Line and the Northern Pacific; the northern terminus of the Utah Central, which ran to the mining town of Frisco in Southern Utah. Ogden was also the terminus for the Echo and Park City railroad, which connected Ogden with the important mining town of Park City.

The depot constructed in 1889 was destroyed by fire in 1923. The present station, which is being nominated to the National Register, was built on the original foundation in 1924. It was designed by john and Donald B. Parkinson of Los Angeles. Although the present building is not a restoration of the 1889 structure, its grand design indicates the importance of Ogden as the railroad center of the Intermountain West.

Because of the decisive role of the railroad in stimulating the economic development of the country and in converting the nation from one of diverse sections into a united and indivisible land, the Ogden Union Depot merits national recognition as a monument to the city of Ogden for its important part in the nation’s railroad story.

Ogden Union Station was added to the National Historic Register (#71000867) on April 11, 1971.

Some of the things located here are: 

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Creston Hotel

29 Saturday Aug 2020

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Creston Hotel
Grand Pacific Restaurant

Located in the Lower 25th Street Historic District in Ogden, Utah.
280 25th Street

Prior to the construction of this building, there stood a two-story school building holding classes in the 1870’s. William W. Burton was Master and Mrs. Frosham the assistant.

The present commercial vernacular structure was built circa 1890-95. It is brick, two stories, with corbeled cornice, square bay windows, and beveled corner.

The building was originally divided into several narrow stores, each one an independant commercial unit but all housed under one roof. Businesses found here were:

  • Alice’s Restaurant
  • Wong, Lee & Jor Restaurant
  • New York Cafe
  • Grand Pacific Restaurant
  • George Nole Saloon
  • Creston Hotel

The building was restored in 1984.

1977

Gasberg Building

28 Friday Aug 2020

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Located in the Lower 25th Street Historic District in Ogden, Utah.
278 25th Street

This building was constructed circa. 1891. The property came into possession of the James O. Stephens family in 1870 and was deeded to Solomon C. and William J. Stephens in 1890. In 1894 the building was bought by the Eccles Lumber Company. Later owners included the infamous “madame” of the Street, Dora Belle Topham, (1906) and the Smith’s Jewelry and Loan Office (1943). The property was sold in 1994 to the current owner, Junichi Jene Holloway.

Businesses known to have occupied the building include:

  • B.F. Mott, Cigar and Tobacco retail (1891)
  • Chris Gasberg, Photographer (1891)
    Jacob Kertz, Pawnbroker (1895)
  • Samuel Drozdowitz, retailer of music, loans and jewelry (1899-1908)
  • Uncle Sam’s Loan Office (1908-1948)
  • Smith’s Jewelry (1943-1980s)
  • Tarenah’s Jewelry & Beauty Supply (1994 – )
  • Onyx Salon

The building was renovated in 1994 to accommodate Tarenah’s Jewelry & Beauty Supply.

The brick structure is a vernacular two-story, two-part commercial block building with modest decorative features. Linear corbeled columns extend down the entire face of the outer edges of the building. The cornice has a wide band of decorative molding with a large fan shaped molding centered beneath the cornice.

The street level section of the building includes large display windows in heavy wooden frames which encompass a recessed entrance with transom windows. On the west side of the street level section of the building is a half-paneled, half-paned stairwell entrance door with with two transom widows above it.