52 Chapter XIV The Weber Stake Academy building later known as the Moench Building was finished and formally opened with very appropriate exercises. The opening took place on Monday, November 23, 1891 at nine o'clock in the morning. Two hundred students enrolled. The building, the dream of Professor Louis F. Moench was at last realized, and a credit to Ogden City, made possible a new scholastic and religiously life to many of the young men and young women of Ogden City, Weber County, and the surrounding territory. A description of the building appeared in the Ogden Standard and was copied in the Deseret News. No one but Louis F. Moench could give the description as detailed in the account: It is a large two-story building with two wings facing east on Jefferson Avenue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth. The wings are erected in Corinthian style, the first floor of the center is Ionic and the second story is Doric while the arches and entrances are in the Romanesque style of architecture. The gable of the central building is an imitation of the St. Magdalene in Rome. It shows in relief three figures, the central of which represents astronomy with a spy glass in the left hand and the right hand resting on a globe. On its right hand is found agriculture with a sickle and a bunch of wheat, while the left represents art with easel and brush. The moon and stars complete the presentation. Below is found the inscription Weber Stake Academy. Still lower, between the two windows of the upper story of the central building and facing the balcony is a large niche, in which is to be placed some statue, the nature of which is yet to be determined. There are three entrances in the central building, the main and two side doors. Entering the right door one passes through a small vestibule into the principal's office which opens into a large study hall 26 x 50 capable of seating 120 pupils. Adjoining the principal's room and also opening into the study room is found an apparatus room which is to be shelved and fitted up for holding all charts, maps, globes and other apparatus used in the school rooms. At the rear or west end of the room is a recitation room 16 x 20 and a small closet for fire hose. Returning and entering the left door one passes through a similar vestibule into a private reading room and library in two apartments which will also be used for a music study room. The walls of these rooms which occupy the same space as do the principal's and apparatus rooms on the right, are so built that no sound can escape to annoy the classes in the other rooms. West of this library, the entrance to which is from the main hall, is found another study hall, a duplicate to the one on the right with adjoining recitation room and closet.