Sacred Heart Academy

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 in 1892 moved it to a grand building 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.

What the plaque says

Site of the 5 acre Sacred Heart Academy Sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, IN, from 1892-1938, becoming the Western Provincial House of the Sisters from 1938-1959. Kindergarten & music classes continued here until the building was condemned in 1959 and demolished two years later. Donated by Ogden Pioneer Chapter Sons of Utah Pioneers Dedicated 2011

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 1.0 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 5.1 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 — 5.2 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Powder Mountain — 14 mi
  The 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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