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Charles Conrad arrived at Fort Benton in 1868, made a fortune in shipping and freighting, and helped found Kalispell in 1891. The house he built there in 1895 — donated to the city by his youngest daughter — opened for public guided tours in 1976 and hasn't closed since. A self-supporting nonprofit, it runs on donations and memberships. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named it a Distinctive Destination. Go for the house; stay because the story of how a Civil War–era Virginian built a Montana town from scratch is stranger and more specific than anything the brief makes safe.
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