Located primarily at the district's northwestern edge, turn-of-the-century homes of the social and business elite are large residences built in Queen Anne/Colonial Revival and Neo-Colonial styles.

Their owners’ fortunes were made from providing supplies and services to soldiers at nearby Fort Assinniboine, homesteaders, and Great Northern Railway employees.

These smaller, one- or one-and-a-half-story dwellings reflect the security of the middle class in Montana during the first decades of the twentieth century.

Havre's establishment as Hill County seat in 1912 coincided with the Progressive political movement that sought clean cities with suitable housing for all.

Post World War I depression dampened construction in the district, but late-1920s railroad expansion caused a housing boom.

The sunburst motif on the front gable end of this single-story, hipped-roof residence signals the builder's debt to the Queen Anne style.

Likely responsible for updating the exterior by enclosing and adding Craftsman-style windows to the original front porch, the Dalrymples lived here until their deaths, Sidney's in 1983 and Alma's in 1995.

An increasingly common feature in Havre after 1929, such apartments frequently provided housing for students attending the Northern Montana School.

In 1936, Great Northern Railroad conductor Ray VanBuskirk and his Irish-born wife, Marie, purchased the residence, establishing a home that has since spanned three generations.

Warren and Edith, offspring of Havre's rich ethnic population and railroading tradition, together raised five children in the home.

[3] The quintessential businessman, Lou Lucke arrived in Havre in 1903, where he founded a shoe repair and later a clothing store and a dry cleaning business.

Two live-in servants helped Kathryn run the house: Mary Daniels, a forty-two-year-old divorced woman, and Paul Tayimo, a twenty-two-year-old Japanese man.

Its elegant and distinctive features include a crenellated tower and carillon, graceful arched windows, and stained glass.

Multi-light windows and the steeply pitched roof with rolled edges are reminiscent of an English cottage while Craftsman style elements include the tapered front columns.