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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. 2445 KIESEL BROWNING BROS. COMPANY OGDEN, WEBER COUNTY UTAH STATE HISTORY ~ 1111111111111111111111 111111111 1111 11111111111111111111111111111 3 9222 50011 2268 " Browning Brothers Company Building 2445 Kiesel Avenue, Ogden, Utah This is the second location in Ogden of the Browning Brothers Company sporting goods store. They opened at this address in 1910. The store carried guns, sporting goods, bicycles and barbers supplies. The original sign can still be seen below the second floor windows on the facade (Figure 2). Company offices were upstairs and the inventor, John M. Browning, had his shop in the rear. He held many patents for innovations in gun manufacturing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. All of Winchester's products between 1883 and 1902 were based on his inventions. His designs were used in automatic weapons used by U.S. troops in all of the major wars of the 20th century. The form of the building is a two part block, describing a fa~ade divided into two major zones, one at street level and the other, the upper zone. This form was common in commercial and particularly office buildings in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The upper zone is punctuated by three openings on each of the two floors. Each opening is filled with a Chicago window, a large fixed pane central window flanked by operable double hung windows on either side. Prairie style elements can be seen in the Chicago windows, the horizontal emphasis and shadow lines of the banding patterns in the brick of the fa~ade, and the terra cotta decorative elements along the cornice line. The original projecting cornice and paired brackets have been removed. Figure 1. Browning Brothers Company Building. South and east elevations. 'r_ ~ - I - ~- -----.- i Figure 2. Browning Brothers Company Building. Facade detail. - |
