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Vananda Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Abandoned schoolhouse
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Nearest city	Forsyth, Montana
Area	32 acres (13 ha)
Built	1907
Architect	Wahl, L.W.
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Bungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.	90000629
Added to NRHP	April 19, 1990

Vananda is a former unincorporated village in northwestern Rosebud County, Montana, United States, along the route of U.S. Highway 12. The town was established in 1908 as a station stop on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, then under construction across Montana. The railway used Vananda as a water stop for its steam locomotives, and built a small reservoir near the townsite to ensure an adequate water supply.

Although the land around Vananda attracted numerous homesteaders during the decade following the railroad's completion, the region proved to be far too arid and inhospitable for intensive agricultural use, and by the 1920s the town was in decline. The railroad through the area was abandoned in 1980, and Vananda is now a ghost town.

The Vananda townsite was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Vananda Historic District in 1990.

It included:

• Vananda School (1920), a two-story building
• Vananda State Bank (1917), a one-story 24 by 40 feet (7.3 m × 12.2 m) yellow- and red-brick building
• Berg Residence (c. 1920), a small one-story house
• Jacobsen Residence (c. 1921), a one-story bungalow house

among other buildings.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Vananda, Montana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
3. Mark A. Hufstetler (November 1, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Vananda Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved September 8, 2017. With 10 photos from 1989 and 1990.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Rosebud County, Montana, United States
County seat: Forsyth
Cities	Colstrip Forsyth
CDPs	Ashland Birney Lame Deer Rosebud
Other communities	Angela Bascom Carterville Hathaway Ingomar Sumatra Vananda
Indian reservation	Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation‡
Ghost town	Hibbard
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Rosebud County, Montana
National Historic Landmarks	Deer Medicine Rocks Wolf Mountains Battlefield-Where Big Crow walked Back and Forth
Historic districts	Bones Brothers Ranch Forsyth Main Street Historic District Forsyth Residential Historic District Vananda Historic District
Historic properties	Blue Front Rooming House Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Hall Claude O. Marcyes House Cold Springs Ranch House First Presbyterian Church and Manse Forsyth Bridge Forsyth Water Pumping Station Herman and Hannah Anderson House Howard School Ingomar Public School J.A. Bookman General Store Rosebud County Courthouse Rosebud County Deaconess Hospital St. Philip's Episcopal Church Wiley, Clark & Greening Bank
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Rosebud County, Montana and List of National Historic Landmarks in Montana

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