“Designed by prominent architect Leslie S. Hodgson, constructed in the winter of 1930 and opened in 1931, the Ogden Union Stockyard Exchange Building was meant to showcase the influence the Ogden Union Stockyards had on the livestock industry. The building, which is located at 600 Exchange Road in Ogden, Utah, is set within a larger complex that was once used for the Ogden Union Stock Yards.
The stockyards were closed in 1971 and the building was subsequently abandoned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Utah Skills Center took over the Exchange Building briefly between 1972 and 1974. After remaining empty for two years, Weber County’s Mental Health Methadone Facility moved into the Exchange although they left the building in 1987. Its last private owner, Chris Bournakis, used the structure as a haunted house for a couple of years before abandoning it once again. In 2013, the building was purchased by Ogden City without a clear plan for its use. They removed the garbage left by transients and discarded material that had accumulated there over a couple of decades. As of 2015, the building remains boarded and uninhabited, though Ogden City has plans to create an industrial business park with the Exchange Building as the primary jewel of the redevelopment. Although there has been significant damage to the building, the majority of the Art Deco design within the main lobby area, such as the Aztec geometric patterns above the plaster pilasters, is fully intact.
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