Lou Lucke arrived in Havre in 1903 and built a varied business career, founding a shoe repair shop and later a clothing store and a dry cleaning business while also speculating in real estate. As the homestead boom spurred Havre’s growth, he and local contractor Cassius Taylor developed Havre’s Lucke-Taylor Addition, where Lou and his wife, Harriet, lived in a 1914 Craftsman style bungalow designed by Havre architect Frank Bossout, who also designed Hill County Courthouse. The house cost approximately $5,000 to build and featured Italian marble and oak woodwork inside. The Luckes raised five children there amid a close family presence, with Harriet’s mother living two doors away and Lou’s brother next door to her. When they came of age, Lucke sons Alvin, Louis, and Neal also built homes in the neighborhood on lots their father gave them. Harriet remained in the house into the 1970s, then sold it to a grandson and moved next door to the smaller house originally built by her son Neal, where she lived until her death in 1981.