The Union Restaurant & Switch Euro. Lodgings

Plain as it is — a simple brick box with a corbeled cornice — this 1888 building is one of the least-altered on 25th Street, and one of the busiest for the longest. For more than ninety years, until 1979, something was always open in it, and the tenants read like a census of the railroad town: the Union Restaurant, the Ying Yee Company, Barsotti the confectioner, a Frazzini brothers' saloon, Mary Martin's Ritz Rooms, the Sunrise Cafe. Immigrant enterprise, one after another, in a single unglamorous storefront that outlasted them all.

What the plaque says

One of the oldest and least disturbed buildings in the 25th Street Historic District is this two-story brick vernacular store built in 1888. The simply corbeled cornice and segmentally arched window bays with stone keys are the only attempts at decoration. A multitude of ethnic enterprises have occupied the building over the years. Among its occupants were, the Union Restaurant, the Ying Yee Company, Barsotti Confectioners, the Frazzini & Bros. Saloon, Mary Martin’s Ritz Rooms, and the Sunrise Cafe. Businesses operated continuously in this building from 1888 to 1979. It was 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

• The Solomon C. Stephens Building — steps away
• London Ice Cream Parlor — steps away
• Porter Block — steps away
• Davenport Saloon — steps away