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Albert Fredrick Maxmillian Anderberg was born in Sweden and came to Rockford via the Great Lakes as a young man. Rockford was a haven for new immigrants from Sweden. There he met Selma Carlson and they married in 1897. Over the following years, they had a family of eight children -- five boys and three girls.

Anderberg House, Fitchburg WI, 0744.

Albert F. M. Anderberg House History Notes.

2849 Oregon Road, Fitchburg WI.

Anderberg House History Notes.

2849 Oregon Road, Fitchburg WI.

The Anderberg house is significant for its unique Arts and Crafts architecture and art reflecting Swedish immigrant Albert Anderberg’s recollections of his family home and life in Sweden.

These features include a fireplace mantel and china cabinet in the dining room, beamed ceilings in the dining room and entrance hall, half-timber-and-plaster walls and ceiling panels in the living room, finely detailed oak plate rails, oak-trimmed wall panels throughout the dining room, entrance hall and front stair. Hand-painted wall and ceiling borders dress the entrance hall, stair, upper hall and a bedroom. In that bedroom, dubbed the “postcard room” by the family, the border is made of dozens of small paintings -- vignettes of the Albert Anderberg’s recollections of his old family home in Sweden.

The construction of the home and the finishing and artistic paintings, the finely detailed oak stair newel post and rail, plate rails, leaded-glass windows and china cabinet were all done by Albert Anderberg with the help of his sons and daughters. The stucco, concrete and wood shingle exterior was built to resemble his old Swedish home, which is depicted in one of the paintings in the “postcard room”. Leaded glass windows are found in the upper sashes of most of the windows, though the front living room window transom and front door window have Arts and Crafts floral motifs in their colored leaded glass patterns. A leaded glass window in the front stair landing window seat was previously removed.

The rear part of the house was originally a small existing farmhouse bought by Anderberg, to which he added the substantial two-story addition, toward Oregon Road, beginning in 1907 or 1908. The older wing was seamlessly adapted with crushed-granite stucco and wood shingle sidings. Only its foundation of granite boulders as seen from inside, easily reveals its 1890s construction. The main part of the house, built by Anderberg and his two older sons has a poured concrete foundation, with oversized concrete blocks, likely made on-site. The front porch is built entirely of reinforced cast concrete, with stuccoed entablature above and arched paneled skirting below. The faceted cast-concrete columns, piers, rail and balusters, as well as, the concrete water table mold at the first floor sill were made on site. The front gable is detailed with sawn-cedar shingles with diamond patterns and the triple-window trims dressed with applied wood garlands.

As to the condition, the shingle sidings and wood trims no longer have paint, and the front porch shows signs of severe deterioration from sinking, cracking, and spalled concrete rails and balusters. However, aside from the porch, the house structure is soundly built and remains plumb and level.

Albert Fredrick Maxmillian Anderberg was born in Sweden and came to Rockford via the Great Lakes as a young man. Rockford was a haven for new immigrants from Sweden. There he met Selma Carlson and they married in 1897. Over the following years, they had a family of eight children -- five boys and three girls.

Anderberg came to Madison to work on the state capitol building, at first by riding his bicycle back and forth each week from Rockford. He became a builder and built many houses in the area, the Collins House on East Gorham Street, Madison, the first Badger School in the Town of Madison, and the Central Lutheran Church on Mifflin Street in Madison. He built his own house on Oregon Road, in the Town of Fitchburg with the help of his two oldest sons.

The Anderberg grandchildren have many memories of the old house. Chuck Anderberg remembers the wood-burning cook stove in the kitchen. Helene and William Dyhr recalled the leaded glass window in the stairway window seat in the landing that is no longer there. Albert and his daughter, Stella (Estella) Anderberg Dyhr, painted the murals in the bedroom, based on Anderberg's recollections of his family's home life and communities in Sweden. Stella became an art teacher at Madison Vocational School.

There was artwork on the wall of the dining room, since painted over, similar to the work in the upstairs bedroom, entrance hall, stairway and upper hall. It was probably painted by Albert and his daughter Selma, as recalled by her daughter Nancy Thompson. The dining room wall, entrance hall, and front stairway have burlap on the lower wall panels framed by oak trims. The dining room artwork is above the shoulder-high plate rail, beneath the paint of recent decades.

The truck garden where the Anderbergs raised vegetables was across Oregon Road. They first sold their produce at a stand (or store) at the corner of Park Street and Hughes Place. Later they sold the produce directly from their property on the Oregon Road. There was a barn on the property along with a green house where they started their plants. Selma Anderberg gardened until she was 90 years old.

During recent decades the house was home to many gardeners and acrobats -- Cycropia Aerial Dance troupe and WackyWheeler performers who employed the big tree east of the house. It was the location of the first Community Supported Agriculture farm, and gave rise to other community organic food-related efforts, organizations and businesses. More recently it served as a neighborhood-based community garden supporting 40 families, largely Hispanic.

The house reflects the growth of a Fitchburg farm family and embodies their Swedish heritage, a rarity in the State, worthy of preservation. It also is significant for it’s continuous use as a farm, from its early development to it’s transition to urban agricultural uses.

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