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.

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