Weber College-The Moench Building

Weber State University started small, and started here. Founded in 1889 as a church academy, Weber College taught Ogden's students from the Moench Building on this block for nearly eighty years, its administrative and classroom heart. The school passed from the Latter-day Saint church to the state of Utah in 1933, grew into a four-year college, and in the 1950s moved up to a new campus on the East Bench, where it became a university in 1991. The old Moench Building was torn down once the college had gone; this marker keeps its place.

What the plaque says

Administrative and Main Classroom Building 1891-1970 History of Weber College 1889-1933 Run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1933 Turned over to the State of Utah 1947 State Legislature authorizes acquisition of land on East Bench 1954 Present campus opened on Harrison Blvd. 1959 Became four year college 1964 Buildings on this block sold 1960 Moench building torn down 1991 Became a university

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.5 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 5.6 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

• Pierre-Jean De Smet — steps away
• Bertha Eccles Community Art Center (2) Mark — steps away
• Bigelow/Ben Lomond Hotel — 0.3 mi
• Lorin Farr - Washington Blvd — 0.3 mi