Boone/Dalrymple House

This single-story, hipped-roof residence, with a sunburst motif on the front gable end reflecting a debt to the Queen Anne style, was owned by Havre pioneer Daniel H. Boone and his wife, Elizabeth. Built before 1903 and perhaps as early as 1892, it is among Havre’s older homes. The technologically advanced Boones installed a telephone in 1903 and indoor plumbing in 1906. Boone owned a drug store on Third Avenue, an easy three-block walk away. That store burned in the devastating 1904 fire that destroyed over 90 percent of downtown, but Boone’s fortunes, like those of most Havre businessmen, rose from the ashes. By 1910, he was selling prescriptions and sundries from a brick business block on the same corner as his old wooden store. The home’s longest-term residents were dentist Sidney Dalrymple and his wife, Alma, who purchased the property in 1929. Likely responsible for updating the exterior by enclosing and adding Craftsman-style windows to the original front porch, the Dalrymples lived there until their deaths, Sidney’s in 1983 and Alma’s in 1995.

Havre, Montana · United States