Historical Marker · No. 4042
Sacred Heart Academy
Ogden, Weber County · Utah
Erected, 2011
In a city where nearly everyone was Latter-day Saint, this was the center of another faith. The Sisters of the Holy Cross came to Ogden in 1879 and opened Sacred Heart Academy, and by 1890 they had built a grand school on 25th Street. For decades it educated the town's girls and anchored Catholic life in a place where Catholics were few. The railroad had made Ogden more mixed than most Utah towns, and here that tradition took root. It closed in 1938 and the building later fell, but the Catholic schooling it began still goes on in Ogden.
Where it stands
41.22072, -111.95453 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Ogden Union Station — 1.0 miA grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
- Snowbasin — 5.1 miOne 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 miOver 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
- Powder Mountain — 14 miThe largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
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