Wishard was a prominent Bloomfield businessman, who was known as the father of the gasoline tax in the United States to raise revenue for road construction.

Wishard had this two-story brick house built in the Queen Anne style in 1910.

The property also included a barn, a chicken house and another small out-building.

The barn was replaced with a garage that complements the house, and the other two structures have subsequently been removed.

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