618 W Mountain Ave. was built by Assistant District Attorney Newton Crose in 1906-07, for his new wife, Louisa (Mettie) Avery, youngest daughter of Franklin and Sarah Avery. Mettie was active in social and educational groups such as the Kanatenah, which in February of 1910 held their monthly meeting in the house. In 1914, Newton was shot and killed by the mentally unstable husband of a client, and Mettie moved back in with her parents at 328 W Mountain Ave.