After 1900, as the expansion of downtown Livingston encroached on earlier residential neighborhoods, professionals and entrepreneurs built new homes on the Westside. The district came to include mostly the less pretentious homes of Livingston’s lawyers, merchants, doctors, and businessmen, along with the city’s most architecturally significant residences. Important residents included Charles Garnier, founder of the exclusive Montana Sport cigar factory, whose Livingston payroll was second only to the Northern Pacific, and who built a residence there in 1902; Livingston mayor and bank president Edward Talcott, whose 1903 mansion sprawled over six city lots on Banker’s Row; wealthy rancher J. H. Harvat, who moved to town so that his children could attend school; telephone company franchise owner Joseph Swindlehurst; banker J. C. Vilas; and renowned criminal lawyer Hugh J. Miller. Among the larger homes, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Shingle, and Prairie styles reflected an astute awareness of national architectural trends in the early twentieth century. After the 1920s, more modest homes were added, and the district’s wide, tree-lined streets, churches, and schools made it Livingston’s preferred residential area even today.