Creston Hotel, Grand Pacific Restaurant

A schoolhouse stood on this spot in the 1870s before the railroad boom swept it aside; the brick building that replaced it around 1890 was carved into a row of narrow shops under one roof. What filled them tells you who came through Ogden: the Creston Hotel and a parade of eating houses — Alice's Restaurant, the New York Cafe, the Grand Pacific, and Wong, Lee & Joe's, one of the Chinese restaurants that fed a railroad town of many nations. A saloon anchored the end. The building was restored in 1984.

What the plaque says

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. Its brick, two stories, with corbeled cornice, square bay windows, and beveled corner. The building was originally divided into several narrow stores, each one an independent commercial unit but all housed under one roof. Businesses found here were, Alice’s Restaurant, Wong, Lee & Joe Restaurant, New York Cafe, Grand Pacific Restaurant, the George Nole Saloon, and Creston Hotel. Restored in 1984.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — steps away
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 6.1 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 — 7.2 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

• Lower 25th Street Historic District — steps away
• The James O. Stephens Building — steps away
• Porter Block — steps away
• The Solomon C. Stephens Building — steps away