Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel, historic hotel in Ogden, Utah, United States
The Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel is a Renaissance Revival building with Mediterranean elements built in 1927 in Ogden, Utah. It contains 350 guest rooms, restaurants, ballrooms, meeting spaces, shops, and a bank, all set within elegant interiors featuring decorative terra cotta tiles and ornamental details on the exterior.
The building opened in 1927 during a growth period for Ogden and was one of only three major hotels built in Utah during that era. In 1933, financier Marriner S. Eccles purchased it and renamed it the Ben Lomond Hotel, making it a social and business center for the city for over forty years.
The hotel reflects Ogden's desire to become a cosmopolitan city, with rooms inspired by different cultures and regions. Visitors today can still see the Arabic-style coffee shop, the Florentine ballroom, and the Spanish meeting room, showing how the city wanted to bring the world into its architecture.
The building is located at the corner of Washington Boulevard and 25th Street in downtown Ogden and is easy to reach on foot. Today it operates as apartments, but visitors can view the historic exterior and access certain decorative spaces in common areas.
The building featured a private penthouse tower designed for the Bigelow family and was architecturally unusual enough to remain one of the few Italian Renaissance buildings in Utah. The Shakespeare Room with murals by artist LeConte Stewart and the English Room with authentic wood paneling imported from England remain visible reminders of this elaborate interior design.
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