424 5th Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA

424 5th Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN, USA - National Register of Historic Places

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Woodbury Fisk House is architecturally significant as the most elaborate and one of the most intact examples of the Italian Villa architectural style in Minneapolis. The residence was built about 1870 by Woodbury Fisk. Fisk, a native of Warner, New Hampshire, settled in Minneapolis in 1856. Originally engaging in the hardware business, Fisk later became a member of the prominent milling company of Pillsbury, Crocker and Fisk. It is not known who Fisk commissioned to design his Italian Villa style residence, but the design exemplifies the characteristics of the style in the elaborate bracketed cornice and window hoodmoulds and in the porch details. The house is a key architectural element in the surrounding environment of other stately homes, serving as an excellent example of its nineteenth century style. As one of only a few such representative of high style Italian Villa design to have survived and retained its original integrity, the Woodbury Fisk House is significant in the continuum of the architectural history of the city.