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Fargo House
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An album page decorated with a watercolor painting of blue flowers and green stems featuring four views of the Frank B. Fargo house on Mulberry Street. A caption handwritten by one of Fargo's children reads "My childhood home." The large two and one-half story brick Second Empire Style house has a corner tower with modified onion dome, wrap-around porch and mansard roof. There is decorative ironwork on the roof and arched dormer windows.
1910
Fargo, Louise Mears
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Poem and Watercolor Paintings on Album Page
1900
An original poem and watercolor paintings of colored maple leaves, all by Louise Mears Fargo, decorate an album page with a photograph of her three children. The children are, from left, Stuart (18...
Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months
September 4, 1899
A head and shoulders photographic portrait of Stuart Fargo is mounted to a hand-painted album page. The watercolor painting is of four stems of blue cornflower (bachelor's buttons).
Watercolor Painting on Album Page
1897
A watercolor painting of an autumn rural scene decorates an album page created by Louise Mears Fargo (1866-1925) to commemorate the birth and early months of her son, Stuart Mears Fargo (1897-1962)...
Louise Mears Fargo and Her Children
1914
Louise Mears Fargo (1866-1925) posing for a profile, three-quarter length standing portrait beside the front porch of the family home on Mulberry Street. She is wearing a striped dress with long ja...
Frank B. Fargo House
1910
A winter view of the front of the Fargo house on Mulberry Street. It is a two and one-half story cream brick Second Empire Style house with mansard roof. There is decorative ironwork on the roof of...
Stuart Mears Fargo
March 8, 1898
An album page featuring five circular portraits of Stuart Fargo. At center is a head and (bare) shoulders portrait of him at age eight months. At the four corners are portraits of Stuart at age sev...
