Neils Hogenson House, Early 20th-century residence in Stirling, Alberta

The Neils Hogenson House is a 1917 catalogue-order house in Stirling, Alberta, assembled from crates shipped by train from Winnipeg by the T. Eaton's Co. It stands on its original foundation and keeps many original features, including shingles, lumber, doors, moldings, windows, paint, nails, hardware and building paper supplied in the kit.

The house arrived in 1917 as a complete catalog order shipped by train from Winnipeg through the T. Eaton's Company. This pre-fabricated delivery method was a new way to quickly build homes in western regions during that era.

The house is a T. Eaton's catalogue order home, one of the ready-to-assemble dwellings the Winnipeg-based firm sold from the early 1900s to the 1930s to help settle Western Canada. Buyers paid for the crates at the railway station and hauled them to the lot, so the house records how prairie families obtained a home when local lumber and supplies were scarce.

The site consists of the original building and its location, offering a good overview of authentic early 1900s residential architecture. The preservation of the original foundation allows visitors to study the construction and design of that era in detail.

The 1917 Eaton's catalogue price of about $1,577 covered shingles, lumber, doors, moldings, windows, paint, nails, hardware and building paper, but not the concrete basement or interior finishing. A hot-air heating plant cost $146 extra and a complete plumbing outfit $180. The crates were paid for at the train station and hauled to the site.