205 Oak St; 310-425 Mulberry St, 512 Mulberry St

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Mulberry Street Residential Historic District
205 Oak Street, 310-425 Mulberry Street and 512 Mulberry Street, Lake Mills, Jefferson County
Architect/Builders: Peter C. Henningson, John Hunzicker

The Mulberry Street Residential Historic District is small, but it contains an exceptionally intact concentration of ten large-scale, mostly brick, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Craftsman style single family residences that were built between 1853 and 1905. The most architecturally significant buildings in the district are fine, and sometimes outstanding, examples of the Italianate and the Queen Anne styles, including the National Register-listed Enoch J. Fargo House, which was built in the Italianate style in 1881 and enlarged and remodeled into a much larger Queen Anne style house in 1896.

Three of the district’s buildings are the work of Lake Mills builder Peter C. Henningson. Henningson is now, and was in his lifetime, the best known of several architect/builders who were active in Lake Mills in the last half of the nineteenth century and the district's concentration of at least three of his houses offers an unusual opportunity to study several works of this master builder in a single place. In addition, the district is also of historical significance to the city of Lake Mills because five of the contributing houses in the district were built for and first occupied by members of the Fargo family. Members of this family first arrived in Lake Mills in the early 1840s and their collective entrepreneurial activities were instrumental in the development of Lake Mills and in creating institutions that still play an important role in the life of the city today.

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