The historic cabin of Miles Goodyear is moved from the site of The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints Ogden Temple, which is being remodeled, to a temporary site in November. The cabin will be moved, along with the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum, to a new permanent site in Ogden. The museum moves today; the cabin will be moved when the weather allows for landscaping. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIElD/Standard-Examiner)
OGDEN -- After spending the past few months in limbo, a pair of historic buildings owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will soon have permanent homes.
More than 100 years of history will move a few city blocks today as the Weber County Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum building will be moved from its current location at 2148 Grant Ave. to 2104 Lincoln Ave. on a half-acre lot donated by the city.
The building is being relocated through the joint efforts of Weber County DUP, Ogden city and the LDS Church in conjunction with the renovation of the Ogden LDS Temple.
"When the construction started (on the temple), it became clear they would have to move," said Sharon Stoker, past president of the Weber County DUP. "We're glad it was a relatively close move."
Originally built as the Weber Stake Relief Society Hall of the LDS Church, the building was completed in 1902.
It was deeded to the Weber County DUP on Sept. 30, 1926, and has been serving Ogden as a pioneer museum since 1929.
Stoker said the Miles Goodyear Cabin, which is part of the museum, will be moved to the same new location when weather permits landscaping to begin.
The buildings were moved temporarily in November from the temple grounds to the Grant Avenue location.
Goodyear was born Feb. 24, 1817, in Connecticut and orphaned while young. At age 16, he joined a missionary expedition to the West. He became a trapper and eventually settled in the cabin he built of cottonwood logs in 1845.
The cabin is the area's first home built by someone who was not an American Indian.
The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the 1980s, and the Ogden City Council recently amended its current local register to note their relocation to the Lincoln Avenue site.
Richard McConkie, Ogden director of community and economic development, said the ordinance language makes it clear that the buildings, and not their location, are what is on the register.
A brick-and-sandstone structure with a stone foundation, the Weber County DUP Museum has one of the oldest and largest collections of Utah pioneer artifacts in the state.
Stoker said once in its new home, the museum will undergo extensive renovations to make the building fully accessible to the handicapped. Workers will also add an office, a library and a large meeting room in the expanded basement, improve lighting and redesign exhibit galleries.
Stoker said the public is welcome to watch the move, which should begin about 8 a.m. today.
Big D Construction moves the historic Miles Goodyear cabin on Lincoln Ave. in Ogden on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.The cabin is being moved to its permanent location at the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum located at 21st Street and Lincoln Ave. in Ogden.(KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)
More than 100 years of history moved a few city blocks Tuesday as the Weber County Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum building was moved from its current location at 2148 Grant Ave. to 2104 Lincoln Ave. on a half-acre lot donated by the city.
The building is being relocated through the joint efforts of Weber County DUP, Ogden city and the LDS Church in conjunction with the renovation of the Ogden LDS Temple.
"When the construction started (on the temple), it became clear they would have to move," said Sharon Stoker, past president of the Weber County DUP. "We're glad it was a relatively close move."
Originally built as the Weber Stake Relief Society Hall of the LDS Church, the building was completed in 1902.
It was deeded to the Weber County DUP on Sept. 30, 1926, and has been serving Ogden as a pioneer museum since 1929.
The Miles Goodyear Cabin, which is part of the museum, will be moved to the same new location when weather permits landscaping to begin.
The buildings were moved temporarily in November from the temple grounds to the Grant Avenue location.
Goodyear was born Feb. 24, 1817, in Connecticut and orphaned while young. At age 16, he joined a missionary expedition to the West. He became a trapper and eventually settled in the cabin he built of cottonwood logs in 1845.
The cabin is the area's first home built by someone who was not an American Indian.
The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the 1980s, and the Ogden City Council recently amended its current local register to note their relocation to the Lincoln Avenue site.
Richard McConkie, Ogden director of community and economic development, said the ordinance language makes it clear that the buildings, and not their location, are what is on the register.
A brick-and-sandstone structure with a stone foundation, the Weber County DUP Museum has one of the oldest and largest collections of Utah pioneer artifacts in the state.
