{"id":2712,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-07-30 16:40:02","latitude":48.5480062622618078194136614911258220672607421875,"longitude":-109.679560071226688933165860362350940704345703125,"title":"Exzelia Pepin House","subtitle":"Havre Residential Historic District","fullsize":"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/7d417bd9f0ca66eff8b0b9151059cb8e.jpg","address":"606 3rd Avenue, Havre, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Born in Quebec, Exzelia Pepin followed his uncle Simon Pepin—Havre’s town founder—to Montana in 1888, a year after the Great Northern Railway reached Fort Assinniboine. Not long after, the Great Northern decided to build a division point at what was then called Bull Hook Bottoms. Exzelia was among the original homesteaders who voted to rename the community Havre. Exzelia became the postmaster, a politically connected position, owned a meat market, and ran cattle. In 1914 he and his wife Anna hired Havre architect Francis F. Bossuot to design them a home worthy of their stature. Bossuot borrowed from several architectural traditions including the Neo-classical (the prominent two-story portico), Italian Renaissance (the flat roof surrounded by a balustrade and dentils under the eave), and Queen Anne (the patterned, leaded-glass windows). The south wing was added after 1920, by which time the Pepins had enclosed much of the veranda. Anna died unexpectedly in 1921, and by 1929 the commanding residence had been converted into apartments. Early tenants included a minister, a grocery store clerk, a stockman, and a dental assistant.","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://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/7d417bd9f0ca66eff8b0b9151059cb8e.jpg":{"id":2869,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Exzelia Pepin House","description":"Exzelia Pepin House (PAc 91-51 Havre R06 F14). Front to side view of the house, facing northwest on 3rd Avenue near the intersection of 3rd Avenue and 6th Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | Dec. 1987 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/7d417bd9f0ca66eff8b0b9151059cb8e.jpg"},"https://historicmt.org/files/original/2935fd7a110c1891a614fa48de37b128.pdf":{"id":6638,"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://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/2935fd7a110c1891a614fa48de37b128.jpg"}}}