for its construction. William T. Ogden was one of the Mormon pioneers who arrived in Southern Alberta in 1899 to help build the St. Mary River Irrigation Canal. He designed the house himself, based on his memories of the architecture of the southern states where he served his mission and met his first wife. Together with an architect friend, Bent Rolfson, of Raymond, they drew up the plans, and with only "day labour" help built the house over a period of years, completing it in 1919. Ogden was a prominent member of the Stirling community. After his death in 1930, the house gradually fell into disrepair. It was used for classes for Grades 1 to 4 while the Stirling School was being reconstructed after a fire. It was used a pool hall, became an apartment house, and then a rooming house for "displaced persons" following World War II. Over the past thirty years it has been owned by individuals who have endeavoured to restore it. See also List of attractions and landmarks in Stirling, Alberta Stirling, Alberta References External links Stirling's Haunted Mansion Stirling Historical Society-Ogden House Maps of historic sites in Stirling Ogden House - Alberta Register of Historic Places Buildings and structures in the County of Warner No. 5 Historic house museums in Alberta Houses completed in 1919 Houses in Alberta Neoclassical architecture in Canada Provincial historic sites of Alberta Registered Historic Resources of Alberta Buildings and structures in Stirling, Alberta