Pine Glenn Cove

Pine Glenn Cove is a vacation retreat that was placed on the national Register of Historic Places on December 28, 2006. Known by various other names, including Hatch's Camp, Forest Hills and St. Ann's Retreat, the property is located in Logan Canyon, Utah includes 11 buildings and structures, including two main lodges, six smaller cabins, a playhouse, a pool house and generator house, along with a fireplace, fire pit, fountain, bridge and swimming pool. At one time, it also was home to a small theater with an adjoining ticket booth. Originally there were several other buildings and also a horse barn and stable.

The site was originally developed in the early 1900s by Hezekiah Eastman Hatch, a prominent Logan businessman who built the first cabin here. Hatch's descendants later expanded the retreat during the 1920s and '30s. Two of them—L.Boyd Hatch and Floyd B. Odlum/one of the ten wealthiest people in the U.S. at the time—became self-made millionaires who during the 1930s and '40s and managed or controlled numerous businesses including RKO studios,Greyhound Buslines, Paramount motion pictures studios, the Hilton Hotel chain, Madison Square Garden and various mines, utilities and banks. The company that Odlum/Hatch owened based in New York City (the Atlas Corporation) also owned such renowed properties as the Plaza Hotel, The Sherrynetherlands Hotel and also Bonwitt Teller Department store for ladies.

The Retreat and its owners hosted many famous people from Hollwood movie stars to government leaders and business heads.

The Odlums expanded the site and eventually the summer camp became a summer retreat, not only for the Hatches and Odlums, but for numerous friends and family. Guests included those with local ties as well as business associates, socialites, and other elites the Hatches and the Odlums knew through their ties to New York and Hollywood.

Until today, Pine Glenn Cove is the largest private retreat in Cache National Forrest, Logan Canyon, and the only one with a swimming pool. [http://www.pineglenncove.com Pine Glenn Cove Official Site] ]

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Additional sources

*Broschinsky, Korral (2006), "History of Hatch's Camp", as submitted to the National Register of Historic Places.
*Moore, Carrie A., "Legends surround St. Ann's Retreat", Deseret News, July 22, 2006.