Stufan farm site (today Villa Margherita) is considered to be one of the oldest recorded settlement sites in St. Ulrich. The altar builder and manufacturer, Josef Rifesser Sr., built the twin farmhouses in 1872 and, in 1882, converted them into an art school for church interior decorations with its own sculpture and carpentry workshop. The business was one of the largest altar-building workshops in St. Ulrich around 1900.  His son, Josef Jr. (bera Sepl da Stufan), carried on with the company and opened a branch at the railway station in Brixen.

Villa Rifesser, since 2006 a listed building that was influenced by late Historicism and features a verandah with Jugendstil elements, came about in 1890 thanks to the conversion of the old farmhouse by the altar builder and manufacturer, Josef Rifesser. His son, Josef Jr., carved four wooden busts of figures involved in the Tyrolean Rebellion of 1809 for the bay window. The workshop on the ground floor was used by the sculptor, Pepi Rifesser, a grandson of the builder, until the turn of the century.