The Wischmeyer House was built circa 1907 for Joseph and Rose Wischmeyer. The architect and builder of the building are both unknown. The building has had only one recorded alteration. A room was added to the third floor in 1936 and general remodeling was done to the interior of the house. The exterior façade of the home has been unchanged.

Between 1880-1955 there was a renewed interest in the architecture of the English and Dutch Colonial houses along the Atlantic sea board. While the Colonial Revival style was dominant throughout the country for the first half of the 20th Century, the subtypes or variation on this style had periods of popularity. The Wischmeyer house is a “hipped roof without full-width porch” which was popular from the 1880’s to 1910.

810 Forest has the “classic box” form; it is a red brick structure with a central door and symmetrical windows and a hipped roof. The architectural features found in the Wischmeyer house that are original to the Georgian style of Colonial architectures are an entablature and side lights surrounding the door, keystone lintels over the windows, and the dentiled cornice. These features are combined with a pedimented dormer, a rounded bay window and a pillared wrap-around porch that are signatures of the Colonial Revival Style.

This house has had no alterations to its façade. This combined with the many architectural details make this an outstanding example of the Colonial Revival Style.