Water Street, which is a major thoroughfare through the district was named after a millrace (non-extant) that rerouted water from the Upper Iowa River to serve the needs of the mills and the commercial district.

The Broadway–Phelps Park Historic District is largely a residential area that is located to the south.

The buildings in the district are primarily two to three stories tall and built with brick.

[2] Architects of note include: Charles Altfillisch, Orff and Guilbert, Turnock & Ohrenstein, Mortimer Cleveland, Gatterdamn & Probst, and Robert Jamieson.

This article about a property in Winneshiek County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.