William T. Ogden House is a historic Neo-Classical Georgian style brick mansion located on 3 acres (12,000 m2) in Stirling, Alberta, Canada.
Foundation walls are even thicker to prevent seepage of water into the basement when flood irrigation was taking place around the house.
It was lit by electricity, powered by twelve batteries, which were recharged by a motor, it was centrally heated by radiators and a coal-fired furnace, and had hot and cold running water which was pumped from a very large cistern beside the house into a storage tank in the basement.
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.
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.