Beckwith House Hotel | |
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Location | 101 W. Huron St., Berlin, Wisconsin |
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Coordinates | 43°58′7″N88°56′48″W / 43.96861°N 88.94667°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1863 |
Architectural style | Vernacular commercial |
NRHP reference No. | 91001389 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 13, 1991 |
The Beckwith House Hotel, at 101 W. Huron St. in Berlin, Wisconsin, is a historic hotel built in 1863. It has also been known as Hotel Whiting. [1] [ dead link ] It is located on what is now Wisconsin Highway 49. The hotel was built by Nelson F. Beckwith. [2] Beckwith, who also owned the Nelson F. Beckwith House, later became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1] [ dead link ]
It is apparently different from the Beckwith House, a hotel built in Oshkosh in 1876, after the great fire of 1875, replacing a previous hotel built in 1867 and renamed to the Beckwith House in 1873. [3]
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