Scowcroft Warehouse

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Scowcroft Warehouse
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The warehouse in 2009
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Location23rd Street, Ogden, Utah
Coordinates 41°13′29″N111°58′39″W / 41.22472°N 111.97750°W / 41.22472; -111.97750 (Scowcroft Warehouse) Coordinates: 41°13′29″N111°58′39″W / 41.22472°N 111.97750°W / 41.22472; -111.97750 (Scowcroft Warehouse)
Arealess than one acre
Built1900 (1900)
Architect Leslie S. Hodgson
NRHP reference No. 78002715 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 30, 1978

The Scowcroft Warehouse is a historic building in Ogden, Utah. It was built as a four-storey warehouse with a basement in 1900 for John Scowcroft and Sons, whose founder John Scowcroft converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England before immigrating to Utah with his family in 1880. [2] He was the founder and namesake of this dry goods wholesale company in Ogden, and he was also a director of a beetroot sugar manufacturer in Northern Utah called the Ogden Sugar Company, which later merged with several companies to become the Amalgamated Sugar Company. [2] The factory was designed by Ogden architect Leslie S. Hodgson and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]

Scowcroft's son Heber was the president of John Scrowcroft and Sons, and he resided at the Heber Scowcroft House, also listed on the NRHP.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Alien D. Roberts (May 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Scowcroft Warehouse". National Park Service . Retrieved October 20, 2019. With accompanying pictures