{"id":647,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-07-30 16:36:54","latitude":48.5493780999999984260284691117703914642333984375,"longitude":-109.67784690000002001397660933434963226318359375,"title":"Crosson-VanBuskirk Home","subtitle":"Havre Residential Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/34b99e084e5910b8bca98e5132a9693b.jpg","address":"436 4th Avenue, Havre, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Prominent builder Abe Crosson acquired this property in 1911. By 1916, a booster brochure proclaimed the frame Colonial Revival residence one of Havre’s beautiful homes. 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. Their son, Warren, a railroad dispatcher, brought his Italian-American wife, Edith, to live here in 1948. Warren and Edith, offspring of Havre’s rich ethnic population and railroading tradition, together raised five children in the home.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/07664d26-5fe1-46bf-bb69-b2b8714c89c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Havre Residential Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/6675d5b9-cf90-448e-ae54-871a9dff9873/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Havre Residential Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/34b99e084e5910b8bca98e5132a9693b.jpg":{"id":2871,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Crosson-VanBuskirk House","description":"Crosson-VanBuskirk House (PAc 91-51 Havre R08 F05). Front to side view of the house, facing west to northwest on 4th Avenue. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | Dec. 1987 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/34b99e084e5910b8bca98e5132a9693b.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/original/ca1316c4a09c600186d41e196e0be558.pdf":{"id":6636,"mime-type":"application/pdf","title":"Havre Residential Historic District","description":"Nomination Documentation. This document is an accessible remediation of the original 1989 scanned nomination form. | <a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/07664d26-5fe1-46bf-bb69-b2b8714c89c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Original NPS Havre Residential Historic District nomination</a> | 2026 remediation | Montana Historical Society","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/ca1316c4a09c600186d41e196e0be558.jpg"}}}