Karen told us about the Carriage House that she, Derek, Michael and Suzy went to see last Friday and got Lee and I very excited about it. So we stopped by on Thursday, but no one was home. We called and the son called us back and set an appointment to see it today.

It belonged to Virginia Wood who was an actress in the 60's and 70's. She bought the house 20 years ago and lived there until she died about 9 months ago. Now her son is selling the house.


We were interested as it might be a good investment. I guess the stock market dropping 40% might have some benefits.


The house is around 4,000 sq feet according to the For Sale flyer. It has 2½ bathrooms. One of them is really pink (the ½ bath is purple) and three bedrooms. I don't think Kagan would like the color scheme of the house.

The main bedroom is on the front of the house and has the turret room set up as a make up room. It was pretty cool. Again, I don't think Kagan would like the pink color scheme. It definitely showed a feminine hand in the decorating.


There are closets and cubby's and a lot of interesting under the eve spaces.


It also had a great many beautiful built ins on the main level of the house and a lot of beautiful wood work that we don't see too much now-a-days.

The stair case although not as grand as the Conrad Mansion is still really impressive.

Lee liked the main living room the best. It was a very comfortable room. You can see the library behind Jim. For an old house, they did a good job electrifying it. There were a lot of lights in the rooms. So it wasn't gloomy at all (even though it was typical cloudy Kalispell day).

Jim was telling us the Historical Society was interested in buying the house and he had shown it 29 times since June. (We were number 29) He's gotten some offers but nothing that was going to sell the house. Lee says he doesn't want to have to update it and it does need some updating for modern living so we'll see... I don't think we'll probably buy it or at least if we make an offer it won't be something the sons are going to be too thrilled about.