Bigelow/Ben Lomond Hotel

Ogden built itself a grand hotel worthy of a railroad city, and it still stands at the head of 25th Street. Opened in 1927 as the Bigelow, this thirteen-story tower — designed by Leslie Hodgson in an ornate Italian Renaissance Revival style — was among the tallest and finest buildings in the state, its lobby all coffered ceilings and carved stone. Renamed the Ben Lomond a few years later for the peak north of town, it hosted travelers, banquets, and the occasional scandal for the better part of a century, and takes guests still.

What the plaque says

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.3 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 5.9 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 7.1 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Powder Mountain — 15 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.

More markers nearby

• Lorin Farr - Washington Blvd — steps away
• Lorin Farr (2) Markers — steps away
• John Henry Weber — steps away
• Jedediah Strong Smith - Ogden — steps away