Watkins Grocery and Cranshaw Photograph

Not everything on 25th Street was vice; most of it was just business. These two neighboring storefronts held the ordinary trades of a railroad town: the one built around 1895 ran Frank Watkins's grocery and a couple of rooming houses, and by 1951 a Seven-Up bottling plant; the 1905 building next door held Luke Crenshaw's photography studio and the Ohio House hotel. Both were restored in 1985 and taken over by an upholstery shop. Groceries, portraits, and soda pop — the everyday commerce that kept the street running between the saloons.

What the plaque says

The two-story, commercial vernacular structure at 215-17 - 25th Street was built in approximately 1895. It housed the Frank R. Watkins Grocery, Mrs. Vina Creamer's Rooms, the Nevada Rooms, and in 1951 the Seven-Up Bottling Company. The building at 219-21 25th Street, built in 1905, was the Luke Crenshaw Photography Shop and the Ohio House Hotel. Both buildings were restored in 1985 and then occupied by the 25th Street Upholstery Company.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — steps away
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 6.2 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

• Belmont Building — steps away
• Davenport Saloon — steps away
• London Ice Cream Parlor — steps away
• The Union Restaurant & Switch Euro. Lodgings — steps away