The Eccles Avenue Historic District, also known as the David Eccles Subdivision is a historic neighborhood located between 25th and 26th streets in Ogden, Utah

Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. Ogden serves as the county seat of Weber County. The population was 82,825 according to the 2010 Census. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a...

, and Jackson and Van Buren Avenues. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1976.

History

Most of the architecturally significant homes were built between 1910 and 1930 with the majority of the larger homes built during the initial settlement decade. Original inhabitants included families Browning (first generation descendants of gun inventor John Browning

John Browning

John Moses Browning , born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world...

 and Matthew S. Browning), Eccles (first generation descendants of 19th century multi-millionaire David Eccles

David Eccles (businessman)

David Eccles was an American businessman and industrialist who founded many businesses throughout the western United States and became Utah's first multimillionaire.-Biography:...

), E.O. Wattis

Edmund Orson Wattis, Jr

Edmund Orson Wattis, Junior , was oldest of the Wattis Brothers and founders of the Utah Construction Company....

 (of the Utah Construction Company

Utah Construction Company

The Utah Construction Company was a construction company founded by Edmund Orson Wattis, Jr, Warren L. Wattis and William. H. Wattis in 1900.-History:...

), Patterson, Dumke, Healy, Rowe, Larkin among other Utah (and national) notables. On Van Buren Avenue to the north but not included in the district are also the substantial Ralph Bristol House

Ralph Bristol House

The Ralph Bristol House is a home in Ogden, Utah built c. 1912 by businessman Ralph Bristol. It is located at 2480 Van Buren Avenue. The wrought iron porch roof is said to have been a gift from a French political figure. It is also rumored that Leroy Eccles build his larger and more stately house...

 and the Gustav Becker House

Gustav Becker House

The Gustav Becker House is located at 2408 Van Buren Avenue, in Ogden, Utah. It was built around 1915 based on Frank Lloyd Wright's "A Fireproof House for $5,000" published in Ladies' Home Journal in April 1907. It was designed in detail by Salt Lake architects Ware & Treganza.-External links:*...

. Several families in the district also had patriarchal ties (Eccles, Patterson, Healy, Wattis, and Bigelow) in the Jefferson Avenue Historic District to the west.
The district was also later home to notables such as Marriner S. Eccles, a Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Chairman of the Federal Reserve

The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the central banking system of the United States. Known colloquially as "Chairman of the Fed," or in market circles "Fed Chairman" or "Fed Chief"...

 and co-founder of First Security Bank (Marriner Browning, an original inhabitant of the district was also a founder.)

The architects of these buildings are listed as Hodgson, Leslie S.

Leslie S. Hodgson

Leslie S. Hodgson was an architect in the Weber County, Utah, United States area from about 1906 to 1947.Hodgson was born in Salt Lake City. As a young man, he studied with several architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright. He moved to Ogden in 1906, and partnered with Julius A. Smith from 1906 to...

 and Piers, Eber F. Hodgson was part of a later firm, Hodgson & McClenahan, that developed the famous Ogden Art Deco

Art Deco

Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

 buildings, including Ogden High School, the U.S. Forest Service Building and Ogden/Weber Municipal Building. Other noteworthy projects included the Union Stock Yard Exchange Building, Shupe-Williams Candy Company Factory, Scowcroft Warehouse, Peery's Egyptian Theatre

Peery's Egyptian Theatre

Peery's Egyptian Theater is a movie palace located at 2439 Washington Blvd., in Ogden, Utah in the United States of America. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.-History:...

, Peery Apartments, Patterson Building, and Eccles Building.

Most of the substantial buildings in the Eccles Avenue Historic District were based on the Prairie School

Prairie School

Prairie School was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States.The works of the Prairie School architects are usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands,...

 architectural style, but several variations of period styles exist including craftsman

American Craftsman

The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art...

, bungalow and Tudor

Tudor style architecture

The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons...

. A few of the buildings are currently commercially utilized but the majority are privately owned residential dwellings.