The site, and the numbers on it
350 22nd Street 9.96 acres 188 feet 8 inches tall
The Ogden Utah Temple stands at 350 22nd Street, two blocks north of the top of Historic 25th Street, on a site the Church measures at 9.96 acres. The building on it runs to 112,232 square feet of floor area and stands 188 feet 8 inches tall, a height the Church's own fact sheet says includes a 13 foot statue at the top.
Those are unusual figures to have. Most landmark buildings publish a height or a footprint and not both, and very few publish the site area alongside them. The Church issues a fact sheet for this building that gives all three, along with the materials, the interior motifs and the names of the artists whose work is inside, which makes this one of the best documented structures in the city from the point of view of anybody who simply wants to know what they are looking at.
The practical consequence of 188 feet on a 9.96 acre site two blocks off the main street is that this is the object that orients the downtown skyline. From most of the valley floor and from a good deal of the East Bench it is the tallest thing in view, and it is the reason the block it sits on is legible from a long way off.
What this page describes
The building, the grounds, the architecture, the materials, the dates and the access. This companion does not describe who attends this or any other place of worship in Ogden, does not use it as a proxy for anything about the people who live here, and does not characterise the city through it. That is a standing rule across The Local and it is applied here exactly as it is applied to the temples in Bountiful, Layton and Syracuse.
The block it stands on
Twenty second Street here carries three quite different things within one block. The temple site is on one side. The Treehouse Museum, a downtown children's museum, is directly across the road at 347 22nd Street. And four blocks down the hill on Washington Boulevard stands the 1939 Ogden Municipal Building, Art Deco and on the National Register. A temple, a children's museum and an Art Deco city hall inside a five minute walk is a genuinely odd and genuinely useful piece of downtown geography.
The details
Getting there
Walk two blocks north from the top of 25th Street on Washington Boulevard and turn west onto 22nd. At 188 feet it is visible from several blocks in every direction, which makes signage unnecessary.
Before you go
- The figures above are the Church's own, from a fact sheet it publishes about this building.
- The height includes a 13 foot statue, so the structure itself is shorter than the headline number.
- The Treehouse Museum is directly across 22nd Street, which is a useful navigation point in both directions.
- This page carries the building and nothing about anybody who uses it.
The 1972 building, and what happened to it
18 January 1972 The 14th operating temple Fifth in Utah
The original building on this site was dedicated on 18 January 1972, and the Church's own fact sheet places it precisely in the sequence: then the fourteenth operating temple and the fifth in Utah. For a city that had been a railroad junction for a century and had watched passenger rail decline, a building of that standing arriving in 1972 was a substantial civic event.
That building no longer exists in any recognisable form, and the Church says so more bluntly than any outside account would dare. Its own wording, in the fact sheet, is that the work was a major renovation and architectural change, of a kind it sets apart from its other recent temple renovations, and that the new design is not remotely similar to the original. An issuing body stating that a building changed completely is the single most useful fact a visitor to this skyline can have, and it explains why photographs from before 2011 look like a different place entirely.
One name circulates for the 1972 building's architect and it is not on the Church's fact sheet or on the temple's own page, so it is not printed here. The 2014 building's architects and contractor are published and appear later on this page. Anybody writing about this site should say which building they mean before saying who designed it.
One figure on the fact sheet that has gone stale
The Church published a scale line in 2014 describing this as one of 143 operating temples and 14 in Utah. That count has certainly moved in the twelve years since, and it is recorded here only so that nobody lifts it off the fact sheet and prints it as current. The dated event sequence on the same sheet, by contrast, does not go stale, and it is what this page uses.
Why the change matters on the ground
Because a great deal of published description of Ogden's skyline predates 2011 and describes a building that is gone. Postcards, older guidebooks and a good deal of image search results show the 1972 structure. If a photograph of the Ogden temple looks nothing like what is at 350 22nd Street today, the photograph is probably right about its own decade and wrong about this one.
The details
Getting there
The Church of Jesus Christ Newsroom publishes an Ogden Utah Temple fact sheet carrying the full dated sequence, which is the document behind every date on this page.
Before you go
- Dedicated 18 January 1972, then the fourteenth operating temple and the fifth in Utah.
- The Church itself says the new design is not remotely similar to the original.
- No architect is named for the 1972 building on the Church's own fact sheet, so none is printed here.
- The 143 temple count on the 2014 fact sheet is stale and is not reproduced as current.
The rebuild, date by date
2010 to 2014 Announced, closed, reopened All from the Church's fact sheet
The whole sequence is published and it is worth having in one place. The renovation was announced on 17 February 2010. The building closed for it on 2 April 2011. A public open house ran from Friday 1 August 2014 through Saturday 6 September 2014, excluding Sundays. A cultural celebration was held on Saturday 20 September 2014. And the rededication took place on Sunday 21 September 2014, in three sessions.
Four and a half years from announcement to rededication, with a five week public open house in the middle of it. That open house window is the part most relevant to anybody trying to understand the building today, because for those five weeks in 2014 the interior was open to anybody who wanted to walk through it, and it has not been since.
The dates above all come from one document, the Church's own fact sheet for this building, and they are consistent with the temple's own page. That is a cleaner documentary record than most buildings in this city can offer, and it is the reason this entry is a list of dates rather than a set of approximations.
What a public open house is, and why it is over
It is a defined period before a temple is dedicated or rededicated during which the interior is open to the general public without restriction. Once the building is dedicated the open house ends. The Ogden open house ran 1 August to 6 September 2014 excluding Sundays, and the rededication followed on 21 September 2014, which closed it. There is no recurring equivalent, and this page does not suggest one.
The other date on this block, once a year
During Ogden Pioneer Days the event organiser uses overflow parking north of the temple on 21st Street with a free shuttle to its stadium, which the organiser publishes on its own parking page. That is the one week of the year this block is busy for a reason unconnected to the building itself, and it is covered properly on the calendar page.
The details
Getting there
The Church of Jesus Christ Newsroom's Ogden Utah Temple fact sheet carries all six dates. The temple's own page on the Church's website carries the access information that follows later on this page.
Before you go
- Announced 17 February 2010, closed 2 April 2011, rededicated 21 September 2014 in three sessions.
- The public open house ran 1 August to 6 September 2014, excluding Sundays, and is over.
- A cultural celebration was held the day before the rededication, on 20 September 2014.
- Every date here is from one published document rather than assembled from several.
The materials, and where every one of them came from
Granite, marble, sapele China, Egypt, Africa Fabricated in three countries
The Church publishes a materials list for this building that reads like a shipping manifest, and it is the most interesting thing on the fact sheet. The exterior is granite, quarried and fabricated in China. The interior stone is Sunny Vinato, Tiberias Gold and Gallala marble, all from Egypt, fabricated in China. The wood is sapele from Africa and painted maple from the United States, all fabricated by Granite Mill in Salt Lake City. The art glass uses glass from Indiana and West Virginia, fabricated by Art Glass Studio in Salt Lake City.
Read that list 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 fabrication split between China and two Salt Lake City workshops. For a building that reads as entirely local from the street, the supply chain behind it runs through four continents.
The interior design motifs the Church names are the Pioneer Rose, grass blades, a weave pattern and a sunburst. Two pieces of art are credited by artist: a main level mural saved from the original 1972 temple and painted by Robert Shepherd, and custom oil baptistry murals by Keith Bond of Fort Collins, Colorado. The Shepherd mural is the one physical thing that carries across from the building that used to stand here.
The saved mural is the through line
In a rebuild the Church itself describes as not remotely similar to the original, one element crossed over: a main level mural by Robert Shepherd, saved from the 1972 building. That is the only continuity between the two structures the fact sheet identifies, and for anybody interested in what happened to the old temple it is the answer with a name attached to it.
Two Salt Lake City workshops on a Weber County building
Granite Mill fabricated all the wood and Art Glass Studio fabricated all the art glass, both in Salt Lake City. That is a detail about how a building of this kind gets made in Utah: the raw material can come from anywhere, and the finishing trades are concentrated forty miles south. It is the sort of fact that only appears because the owner published a materials list, which almost no building owner does.
The details
Getting there
The exterior granite is the material a passer by can actually inspect. Everything else on the list is interior and is documented rather than visible, which is exactly why the published fact sheet is worth reading.
Before you go
- Exterior granite quarried and fabricated in China, per the Church's own sheet.
- Interior marble from Egypt, fabricated in China; sapele from Africa and maple from the United States.
- The wood and the art glass were both fabricated in Salt Lake City workshops.
- One mural by Robert Shepherd was saved from the 1972 building and reinstalled.
The architects, the builder, and a downtown coincidence
Richardson Design Partnership Big-D Construction Both Salt Lake City
For the 2014 building the Church names both. The architects are Richardson Design Partnership of Salt Lake City. The contractor is Big-D Construction, also of Salt Lake City. Those are published on the fact sheet and are the only design credits this page states, because they are the only ones the issuing body gives.
The coincidence worth recording is that 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 of downtown Ogden's landmarks, thirteen years apart and four blocks from each other. It is small, it is true, and it is checkable, which is the standard this companion applies to anything it repeats.
The rule this entry exists to enforce is simpler than either fact: do not write designed by about this site without saying which building you mean. A name in circulation belongs to the 1972 structure and is not on the Church's sheet; the two names above belong to the 2014 structure and are.
Two architectural threads through one downtown
Ogden has more of these than a city of 87,000 has any right to. Leslie S. Hodgson designed The Monarch in 1929 and, with McClenahan, the Municipal Building in 1939, in two completely different idioms four blocks apart. Big-D built the amphitheatre in 2001 and the temple in 2014, again four blocks apart. Both threads are verifiable at the buildings themselves, and neither has been written down anywhere before.
What the credits do not tell you
No construction cost is published for this building, no contract value and no employment figure, and none is invented here. The Church publishes a fact sheet about what the building is and what it is made of, not about what it cost to make. That is a normal boundary for a private owner and it is respected here rather than filled in from a secondary estimate.
The details
Getting there
The Church's own fact sheet names Richardson Design Partnership as architects and Big-D Construction as contractor for the 2014 building. No credit is given there for the 1972 building.
Before you go
- Say which building before saying who designed it. The two have different answers.
- Richardson Design Partnership and Big-D Construction, both Salt Lake City, for the 2014 building.
- Big-D also built the 2001 Ogden Amphitheater, four blocks away at the top of 25th Street.
- No construction cost is published by the owner and none is estimated here.
Visiting, and what is not published
No visitors' centre Grounds hours unpublished Parking unpublished
The temple's own page states plainly that no visitors' centre is on site. That is a meaningful 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 actually is: the grounds and the exterior, rather than an interpretive experience.
The same page carries a short access line, that reservations are available and walk ins are welcome, and that all are welcome to the house of the Lord. This companion prints that sentence because it is the Church's own statement of access and leaves it there, without elaboration and without any description of who uses the building.
Two things a visitor would want are not published anywhere the Church prints, and were looked for on both the temple's page and the fact sheet on 21 August 2026: the hours during which the grounds are open, and the parking arrangements. Neither was found. This page therefore prints neither, which means a stop here should be planned as a street level look on a walk rather than as a scheduled visit with a car.
What that means practically
Walk to it. The site is two blocks north of the top of 25th Street and about a six minute walk from Washington Boulevard, which is well inside the range of the downtown route most visitors are already on. With no published parking and no visitors' centre, arriving by car to a building whose grounds hours are unpublished is planning on information that does not exist. Arriving on foot on a downtown walk avoids the whole question.
The one exception, one week a year
During Ogden Pioneer Days the rodeo organiser publishes overflow parking north of the temple on 21st Street with a free shuttle to the stadium, which is the single published reference to parking in this area from any organisation. It is an event arrangement rather than a temple facility, and it applies for a few days in late July and not otherwise.
The details
Getting there
Walk from the top of 25th Street. No parking arrangement is published by the Church for this site, and no grounds opening hours were found on either the temple's page or the fact sheet on 21 August 2026.
Before you go
- No visitors' centre on site, which the temple's own page states.
- Grounds hours are not published anywhere the Church prints. Do not plan a timed visit.
- Parking is not described by the Church either, which is the practical argument for walking.
- The Church's own access line is that reservations are available and walk ins are welcome.
Two buildings
The 1972 temple and the 2014 one, on the same 9.96 acres.
The clearest way to hold this site in your head is as two buildings rather than one building that was tidied up. Here is what the Church publishes about each, side by side, with the gaps left as gaps. The right hand column is the structure standing at 350 22nd Street today.
| The 1972 building | The 2014 building | |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated | 18 January 1972 | Rededicated 21 September 2014, in three sessions |
| Standing | Then the 14th operating temple and the 5th in Utah | The structure on the site today |
| Architect | Not named on the Church's fact sheet | Richardson Design Partnership, Salt Lake City |
| Contractor | Not named on the Church's fact sheet | Big-D Construction, Salt Lake City |
| Design relationship | The original | In the Church's own words, not remotely similar to the original |
| What crossed over | A main level mural by Robert Shepherd | The same mural, saved and reinstalled |
| Closed and reopened | Closed for renovation 2 April 2011 | Public open house 1 August to 6 September 2014, excluding Sundays |
Every entry from the Church of Jesus Christ Newsroom's Ogden Utah Temple fact sheet, read 21 August 2026. Where the Church names nothing, this table says so rather than borrowing a name from elsewhere.
Living with it
The tallest thing downtown, and the block around it.
For anybody living in or near downtown Ogden this building is first of all a landmark in the navigational sense: 188 feet on a 9.96 acre site two blocks off the main street, visible from most of the valley floor and a good deal of the East Bench, and therefore the thing that tells you which way you are facing. That is a real function in a city laid out on a numbered grid, where the mountains give you east and very little else gives you anything.
The block itself is worth walking rather than driving past. The Treehouse Museum is across the road at 347 22nd Street, open Tuesday to Saturday and closed Sunday and Monday. Four blocks down the hill on Washington Boulevard is the 1939 Municipal Building, Art Deco and on the National Register since 1983. The amphitheatre and Municipal Gardens sit beside that, and the top of Historic 25th Street is two blocks south. The downtown venues page carries the rest of that walk.
And the seasonal note, once a year: during Ogden Pioneer Days in late July the rodeo organiser publishes overflow parking north of the temple on 21st Street with a free shuttle, which is the only published parking reference for this area from any organisation and the one week the block carries event traffic. For the other fifty one weeks it is a quiet two blocks with the tallest building in the city on it.
