Lougheed House

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Lougheed House

The Lougheed House , originally called Beaulieu , is a historic building in Calgary with National Historic Site status .

The building was built in 1891 for Senator James Alexander Lougheed and his wife Isabella, the grandparents of later Prime Minister of Alberta Peter Lougheed . The sandstone building was one of the stately mansions on the prairie in western Canada and a center of Calgary social life in the decades that followed. After the death of James and Isabella Lougheed, the property fell to the City of Calgary. Between 1934 and 1979 it served as a training center, sleeping facility for the Canadian Women's Army Corps, and regional headquarters for the Canadian Red Cross. Thereafter, the province of Alberta took over the property. Under the name Beaulieu National Historic Site of Canada , the complex was added to the National Historic Site of Canada directory on June 10, 1992 . In 1995 the Lougheed House Conservation Society was founded. After restoration work from 1997 to 1999, the building was opened to the public and is now one of Calgary's tourist attractions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Beaulieu National Historic Site of Canada. In: Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '26.13 "  N , 114 ° 4' 37.74"  W.