Ogden Arsenal, Boiler House, West side of Aspen Avenue, north of Maine Street, Layton

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This Boiler House provides particularly vivid insight into the processes involved in heating buildings used in the locomotive repair operations at Ogden Arsenal. In addition, Building contributes to a fuller understanding of the U.S. Army build-up which occurred on the eve of and during World War II. History: Building served as the Boiler House for the network of buildings in the locomotive repair shop area. The original heating equipment in the building included two 200 horsepower Union Iron Works boilers, one 500 horsepower Keeler boiler, and a 160 psi pressure semi-automatic, gas-fired water tube that featured a hand-fired oil standby. The equipment came complete with all controls, meters, gauges, steam pumps, oil pumps, valves, stacks, breechings, blow downs, etc.

Unlike the hollow tile walls of other boiler houses at Ogden Arsenal, Building was constructed from brick walls. Since this plant was not near volatile explosives, the building was constructed of more conventional materials. Building continues to serve in its original function today. OGDEN ARSENAL, BOILER HOUSE HAER No. UT-84-AP Page 2 General Description: Building x is similar in size and design to other heating plants at Ogden Arsenal. It is framed in concrete and contains a gable roof covered with corrugated asbestos. The original building contained two entries on the west elevation: a double loading door on the south bay and a single door on the north bay that opened directly to stairs that led to the basement. The boilers sat on the basement floor, standing approximately 15 feet high.

The east and south elevations contained a four-by-five-pane window centered in each bay, while the north elevation contained three windows and a 51-inch diameter refractory brick ring around the breeching for the 80-foot stack pipe which sat 11 feet from the north wall Additions made after include a one-story gabled brick addition to the south (over the site of the original stack) and a taller concrete block addition to the north. This block addition contains a stepped parapet wall and segmentally arched windows. Two metal stacks extend through the roof of the original building and one extends through the roof of the concrete block addition. OGDEN ARSENAL, BOILER HOUSE HAER No. UT-84-AP Page 3 AC6-^ no j g r-o t* _ / - "7..A !!T*LJKM-i.\.~lMl&. L *!fretej?J_ J^ y '$ UTAu >. l/ 3 H +