The Charles E. Conrad Mansion is a historical

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Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...

mansion located in

Kalispell, Montana Kalispell (, Montana Salish: Ql̓ispé, Kutenai language: kqayaqawakⱡuʔnam) is a city in, and the county seat of, Flathead County, Montana, United States. The 2020 census put Kalispell's population at 24,558. In Montana's northwest region, ...

. It was designed by the noted

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, architect

Kirtland Cutter Kirtland Kelsey Cutter (August 20, 1860 – September 26, 1939) was a 20th-century architect in the Pacific Northwest and California. He was born in East Rockport, Ohio, the great-grandson of Jared Potter Kirtland. He studied painting and ill ...

. It was the home of Charles E. Conrad, a late 19th century shipping magnate and early pioneer of Kalispell.

Style and construction

The style of the architecture is a revivalist version of the vernacular farmhouse style of the

architecture of Normandy :''See also the Romanesque architecture erected by the Normans at Norman architecture.'' The architecture of Normandy spans a thousand years. Vernacular domestic styles In Upper Normandy and in the pays d'Auge, Mortainais, Passais and Avranch ...

in France, rather than the version of

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called "

Norman architecture The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries. In particular the term is traditionally used fo ...

". Construction of the home began in 1892 and it was completed in November 1895.

National Register of Historic Places

The

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is listed on the

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{{National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana Shingle Style architecture in Montana Kalispell, Montana Houses in Flathead County, Montana Historic house museums in Montana Neo-Norman architecture in the United States Houses completed in 1895 1895 establishments in Montana