From Naples Historic Districts Survey in 2019:

       "Though the Widmer name is most associated with winemaking in the Naples Valley today, it was Hiram Maxfield, Jr. who first entered the industry locally on a large scale, building his wine cellar at 12 Clark Street around 1880, predating Widmer’s founding by around a decade. Making this surviving structure more significant is that it appears to be the only nineteenth century wine cellar building in the survey area that survives in anything resembling its original state, much of the original Widmer complex having been destroyed by the 1943 fire or significantly altered. The façade of the original portion of the cellar remains intact with high-integrity and modest decorative elements, and though the early twentieth century additions to the building are now clad with vertical panel siding, and some industrial tubing has been added to facilitate the structure’s current use as a woodworking shop, the building retains a degree of fidelity to its historic form suggesting that the original brick structure still remains under the cladding."