Ben Lomond Hotel
I was born in Ogden and spent a great deal of my growing up years there so I am quite familiar with the Ben Lomond Hotel, I had not however stayed there before this year when we traveled to attend my grandfathers funeral. The Ben Lomond started out as the Reed Hotel from 1891 to 1926 then in 1927 the hotel was rebuilt with additional stories added and named the Bigelow Hotel. Marriner S. Eccles purchased the hotel in 1933 and renamed it the Ben Lomond Hotel. The Ben Lomond Hotel was one of three grand hotels in Utah, the other two the Hotel Utah ( that I stayed in as a child) and the Newhouse are no longer operating as hotels, with the Newhouse being demolished and the Hotel Utah turned into church offices. The Ben Lomand as well as the city of Ogden have a very colorful past, the hotel is located at the top of 25th street with Union Station at the bottom. Prohibition began in Utah earlier than the rest of the nation, and it is believed that there...