| Additional Information: | See district site file.
Historical Background
The Lundberg House at 9420 Maple Street was constructed circa 1890 for C.A. and Alice Lundberg. Mrs. Lundberg designed the house.
Mr. and Mrs. Lundberg ran the grocery store on the Northeast corner of Main and Spruce Streets. They offered the land adjacent to their home for the site of the Baptist Church they wanted to establish. Before the church opened, Mrs. Lundberg held Sunday School in the Town Hall.
C.A. Lundberg was born in Milwaukee on 25 August, 1854 to Carl and Catherine Lundberg of Sweden and Norway respectively. At the age of thirteen, Lundberg moved with his family to Fish Creek. His father taught him the cooper's trade. In 1881 he turned to his own business and opened a mercantile store on the north east corner of Main and Spruce Streets.
Lundberg married Alice M. Schuyler on 13 September, 1885. The Lundbergs were Baptist. Lundberg was a member of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Knights of the Maccabees. [C vol. 2, p.222]
Mr. Lundberg was also vice president of the Door County News Company, incorporated on 1 July, 1914, with Earl M. La Plant as president. [C vol;. 23, p.123]
The proeprty (north half of lot 5 of block 11 of Asa Thorps Plat) was transferred to Alice Lundberg's daughter Mrs. Alma Waldo upon Lundberg's death in 1962. In the late 1960s the propperty was part of the Alma Waldo trust. In 1979 the property was sold to Margaret Fisher of Phoenix, Arizona. Fisher sold the property to White Gull Inn, Incorporated in 1983.
Historical Significance
The house at 9420n Maple Street is historically significant as the home of one of Fish Creek's early prominent businessmen, Mr. Carl Lundberg, and his wife, Alice Lundberg, who was influential in the establishment of the Baptist Church (not interdenominational Community Church) in Fish Creek.
Architectural Description
This owner-designed clapboard house is a simle vernacular adaptation of the Queen Anne style popular in the 1880s and 1890s. Although it is symmetrically arranged, with an ell centered on a side-gable main block, it hsa recessed and projecting walls creating the visual interest found on higher style Queen Anne residences.
Fenestration is regular and sparse. On the front, a pair of double-hung wood sash windows are centered on the second story above the first story larger fixed sash window. Similar windows are found on the side elevations of the side-gabled main block.
Entrances to the main block are located on either side of the projecting ell. On the west, the porch has been screened in.
The hip-roofed porch extends from the main block, enveloping the projecting ell. Turned posts support the porch roof.
Architectural Significance
The house at 9420 Maple Street is architecturally significant as fine example of a vernacular interpretation of the Queen Anne. Few full blown Queen Anne details appear on the house, except for the porch posts, but the movement of the wall surfaces is reflective of the busyness of higher style houses of the same period in other communities. This is one of only a few houses of this generation remaining in downtown Fish Creek, and has been well maintained. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Edward and Lois Schreiber, editors, Fish Creek Voices, An Oral History of a Door County Village, (Sister Bay, WI: Wm Caxton Ltd), 1990.
B. Door County Almanak No. 5: Tourism, Resorts, Transportation, (Sister Bay, WI: The Dragonsbreath Press), 1990.
C. History of Door County Wisconsin, The County Beautiful. Volumes 1 and 2. (Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company) 1917
D. Door County Register of Deeds Book/Page, 361/606, 321/622, 203/613, 136/528, 69/181, 13/619, 48/357.
E. Helen Allen "A Sampling of Historic Structures and Sites In Fish Creek - May 1990", typed manuscript of walking tour. Printed privately. |
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