Scowcroft Warehouse

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 Warehouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The warehouse in 2009
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Location	23rd Street, Ogden, Utah
Coordinates	41°13′29″N 111°58′39″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1900 (1900)
Architect	Leslie S. Hodgson
NRHP reference No.	78002715[1]
Added to NRHP	November 30, 1978

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.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
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