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A downtown landmark rebuilt so completely the owner calls it a different building

The Ogden Utah Temple, and the building it replaced

It stands at 350 22nd Street, two blocks north of the top of Historic 25th Street, on a 9.96 acre downtown block: 112,232 square feet, 188 feet 8 inches tall, faced in granite quarried and fabricated in China. The one thing to know before you look at it is that this is not the temple dedicated here in 1972. It was rebuilt so thoroughly that the church that owns it says the new design is not remotely similar to the original, which makes this the rare landmark where the owner tells you your old photograph is out of date.

On this page The short answer The building The rebuild The materials Visiting FAQ
Scott BuehlerBy Scott Buehler, Moving Utah Updated October 2026

The short answer

The Ogden Utah Temple stands at 350 22nd Street, on the downtown block two streets north of the top of Historic 25th Street. The site is 9.96 acres, the building is 112,232 square feet and 188 feet 8 inches tall, and the exterior is granite quarried and fabricated in China. The thing worth knowing first is that this is not the building dedicated here in 1972. It closed in April 2011, was rebuilt, and was rededicated in September 2014, and the church that owns it says plainly that the new design is not remotely similar to the original. There is no visitors' center on the site and no set grounds hours, so the sensible way to see it is on foot, as a stop on a downtown walk.

Where350 22nd Street, downtown Ogden, on a 9.96 acre block
From downtown OgdenAbout 0.3 miles, roughly a 6 minute walk from 25th and Washington
The building112,232 square feet, 188 feet 8 inches tall, granite exterior
RebuiltClosed April 2011, rededicated September 2014
VisitingNo visitors' center on site; free to look at from the street and grounds

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The building and the numbers

A 9.96 acre block, and the tallest thing downtown

350 22nd Street 9.96 acres 188 feet 8 inches tall Directions

The temple sits at 350 22nd Street and takes up most of a downtown block on Washington Boulevard, which is US Highway 89 through the middle of Ogden. The site is 9.96 acres. The building on it holds 112,232 square feet and stands 188 feet 8 inches tall, a height that includes the statue at the very top, so the structure itself is a little shorter than the headline figure.

What that adds up to on the ground is the object that orients downtown. From most of the valley floor and a good part of the East Bench it is the tallest thing in view, and it is the reason the block reads from a long way off. In a city laid out on a numbered grid, where the mountains give you east and little else gives you a fixed point, that matters more than it sounds.

The details

Where350 22nd Street, Ogden, UT 84401, taking up most of a downtown block on Washington Boulevard
From downtown OgdenTwo blocks, about 0.3 miles on foot from 25th and Washington
The site9.96 acres
The building112,232 square feet, 188 feet 8 inches tall
Cost to lookFree, from the street and the grounds

The rebuild

The 1972 temple, and the very different one that replaced it

The first building on this site was dedicated on January 18, 1972, then the fourteenth operating temple in the church and the fifth in Utah. For a city that had been a railroad junction for a century and had watched passenger rail fall away, a building of that standing arriving in 1972 was a real civic event.

That building is gone in any recognizable form, and the church that owns it says so more bluntly than any outsider would. It calls the work a major renovation and architectural change and states that the new design is not remotely similar to the original. When the owner of a landmark tells you the building changed completely, that is the single most useful thing a visitor to the skyline can know, and it explains why pictures taken before 2011 look like a different place.

The sequence is short and worth having in one place. The renovation was announced on February 17, 2010. The building closed on April 2, 2011. A public open house ran from August 1 through September 6, 2014, closed on Sundays. A cultural celebration followed on September 20, and the rededication was on September 21, 2014, in three sessions. That open house is the part most relevant to understanding the building today, because for those five weeks the interior was open to anyone who wanted to walk through it, and it has not been since.

The materials

Granite from China, marble from Egypt, wood from Africa

The materials list for this building reads like a shipping manifest. The exterior is granite, quarried and fabricated in China. The interior stone is three Egyptian marbles, Sunny Vinato, Tiberias Gold and Gallala, fabricated in China. The wood is sapele from Africa and painted maple from the United States, milled at Granite Mill in Salt Lake City. The art glass is made from glass out of Indiana and West Virginia, fabricated at Art Glass Studio in Salt Lake City.

Read that again and the building becomes a different object: a downtown Ogden landmark assembled from Chinese granite, Egyptian marble, African hardwood, American maple and Midwestern glass, with the finishing split between China and two Salt Lake City workshops. For something that reads as entirely local from the street, the supply chain behind it runs across four continents, and the raw stone and wood came from far away while the trades that shaped them sit forty miles south.

The interior motifs the owner names are the Pioneer Rose, grass blades, a weave pattern and a sunburst. Two pieces of art carry names: a main level mural by Robert Shepherd, and custom oil baptistry murals by Keith Bond of Fort Collins, Colorado. The Shepherd mural is the one physical thing carried across from the 1972 building. In a rebuild the owner itself describes as not remotely similar to the original, that mural is the only continuity between the two structures, and for anyone wondering what became of the old temple it is the answer with a name attached.

Who designed and built it

Richardson Design Partnership, and the firm that also built the amphitheater

For the building standing today, finished in 2014, the architects were Richardson Design Partnership of Salt Lake City and the contractor was Big-D Construction, also of Salt Lake City. Those are the credits the owner publishes.

There is a small coincidence worth recording. Big-D Construction also built the Ogden Amphitheater, the 2001 outdoor venue at the top of 25th Street beside the Municipal Building. One contractor, two downtown Ogden landmarks, thirteen years apart and four blocks from each other. It is small, it is true, and it is easy to check.

The practical point is simpler than either fact: say which building you mean before you name a designer. The 1972 temple and the 2014 one are not the same building, and treating them as one is where most accounts of this site go wrong.

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1972 against 2014

The two buildings, side by side on the same acres

The clearest way to hold this site in your head is as two buildings, not one building that was tidied up. Here is what is on the record for each. The right hand column is the structure standing at 350 22nd Street today.

The 1972 buildingThe 2014 building
Dedicated18 January 1972Rededicated 21 September 2014, in three sessions
Its place thenThe 14th operating temple, and the 5th in UtahThe building standing on the block today
DesignThe originalNot remotely similar to the original, in the owner's words
What carried overA main level mural by Robert ShepherdThe same mural, saved and put back
The workClosed for renovation 2 April 2011Public open house 1 August to 6 September 2014, closed Sundays

Visiting

Can you visit, and where do you park?

Ogden Utah Temple, 350 22nd Street Directions

There is no visitors' center on the site. That is a real difference from Salt Lake City and from several other Utah temples, where a visitor building is the public front door, and it changes what a stop here is: the grounds and the exterior, rather than an indoor experience. The building's own listing carries a short access line, that reservations are available and walk ins are welcome.

For someone who just wants to see it, the grounds and the exterior are the subject, and there is a practical wrinkle: there is no set schedule of grounds hours and no visitor parking lot for the site. So the easy version is to walk. The block is two streets north of the top of 25th Street and about six minutes on foot from Washington Boulevard, well inside the downtown route most visitors are already on. Park once downtown, in the free lots at Union Station or The Junction, and go the rest of the way on foot. A children's museum sits directly across the road, which makes an easy pairing.

One exception runs a few days each late July. During Ogden Pioneer Days the rodeo organizer uses overflow parking north of the temple on 21st Street with a free shuttle to its stadium. That is an event arrangement rather than a temple facility, and for the other fifty one weeks of the year this is a quiet two blocks with the tallest building in the city on it.

The details

WhereThe grounds at 350 22nd Street; no visitors' center on the site
From downtown OgdenAbout 0.3 miles, roughly a 6 minute walk from 25th and Washington
What you seeThe grounds and the exterior, year round
ParkingWalk from the free lots at Union Station or The Junction
CostFree to look at from the street and the grounds

The block around it

The tallest thing downtown, and what shares its block

For anyone living in or near downtown Ogden, this building is first of all a landmark in the plain navigational sense: 188 feet on a downtown block, visible from most of the valley floor and much of the East Bench, and so the thing that tells you which way you are facing. On a numbered grid that is a genuine function.

The block itself is worth walking rather than driving past. A downtown children's museum sits directly across the road at 347 22nd Street. Four blocks down the hill on Washington Boulevard is the Ogden Municipal Building, built in 1939 in Art Deco by Hodgson and McClenahan and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. The amphitheater and Municipal Gardens sit beside it, and the top of Historic 25th Street is two blocks south. The downtown venues page carries the rest of that walk, and the Historic 25th Street guide covers the street itself.

Children's museum, 347 22nd Street Directions

Ogden Municipal Building, Washington Blvd Directions

Quick answers

The temple, answered

It stands at 350 22nd Street in downtown Ogden, on the block two streets north of the top of Historic 25th Street, on a 9.96 acre site. The building holds 112,232 square feet and rises 188 feet 8 inches, a height that includes the statue at the top. At that height it reads from most of the valley floor and much of the East Bench, which is why it anchors the downtown skyline. Those figures come from the church that owns it.

No. There is no visitors' center on the site, which is a real difference from Salt Lake City and some other Utah temples where a visitor building is the public front door. What a visitor sees here is the grounds and the exterior. The building's own listing adds a short access line: reservations are available and walk ins are welcome.

The renovation was announced on February 17, 2010, and the building closed for it on April 2, 2011. A public open house ran from August 1 through September 6, 2014, closed on Sundays, a cultural celebration followed on September 20, and the rededication was on September 21, 2014, in three sessions. That is about four and a half years start to finish, and the open house has not come back since.

No. The church that owns it calls the work a major renovation and architectural change and says the new design is not remotely similar to the original. The first building on this site was dedicated on January 18, 1972, then the fourteenth operating temple and the fifth in Utah. One thing carried across: a main level mural by Robert Shepherd, saved from the 1972 building and put back. Photographs taken before 2011 show a different building.

The exterior is granite quarried and fabricated in China. Inside are three Egyptian marbles, Sunny Vinato, Tiberias Gold and Gallala, fabricated in China; sapele wood from Africa and painted maple from the United States, milled at Granite Mill in Salt Lake City; and art glass made from Indiana and West Virginia glass at Art Glass Studio in Salt Lake City. The named interior motifs are the Pioneer Rose, grass blades, a weave pattern and a sunburst.

For the building standing today, finished in 2014, the architects were Richardson Design Partnership of Salt Lake City and the contractor was Big-D Construction, also of Salt Lake City. Big-D also built the 2001 Ogden Amphitheater four blocks away at the top of 25th Street. Say which building you mean before naming a designer, because the 1972 structure and the 2014 one are not the same building.

Yes, the grounds and the exterior are open to look at, since there is no visitors' center on the site. There is no set schedule of grounds hours and no visitor parking lot for the site, so the easiest way to see it is on foot: it is about 0.3 miles and roughly six minutes walking from 25th and Washington, well inside the downtown route most visitors are already on, with a children's museum directly across the road.

Three different things within a five minute walk. A downtown children's museum sits directly across the road at 347 22nd Street. Four blocks down the hill on Washington Boulevard is the Ogden Municipal Building, built in 1939 in Art Deco by Hodgson and McClenahan and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. And the top of Historic 25th Street, with the amphitheater and Municipal Gardens beside the city hall, is two blocks south.

There is no visitor parking lot published for the temple itself, so the simplest plan is to park once downtown and walk. The free lots at Union Station and The Junction put you within a short walk. One exception runs a few days each late July: during Ogden Pioneer Days the rodeo organizer uses overflow parking north of the temple on 21st Street with a free shuttle to its stadium, which is an event arrangement rather than a temple facility.

Scott Buehler, Moving Utah

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