National Register of Historic Places listings in Waukesha County, Wisconsin
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.[1]
Andrews was a co-founder of Mukwonago who came from Vermont in 1836 to open a store and serve as a civic leader. In 1842 he built this modest but elegant Greek Revival home, one of the first brick homes in Waukesha County.[6][7] Now a museum.[8]
Bottling factory complex begun in 1885 across the street from Arcadian Spring. The 2.5-story bottling house section was designed by Stephen Shipman, a rare application of Queen Anne style to an industrial building, with coursed ashlar walls, shingles in the gables, and a 3-story corner tower. Now apartments.[9][10]
Queen Anne-styled cottage built in 1893, with decorative shingles and sunburst designs in the gable ends, and a carriage house behind. Baer's family ran a general merchandise store and he served as village president.[11][12]
Wooden Greek Revival-styled house built in 1858, with typical low-pitched roof and cornice returns. Andrew was a farmer who had migrated with his family from Lehigh County Pennsylvania in 1844.[15][16]
2-story brick-veneered hip-roofed Italianate-style house built in 1878, when it was surrounded by farmland. Built for George Barney, whose father Sebina was a blacksmith and bank founder. Behind is a Gothic Revival-styled carriage house.[17][18]
Concrete-walled structure built in 1875, in which a stove below heated hop flowers drying above, at the end of the brief period when hops were grown in the state.[19]
2-story frame building with a boomtown front built in 1895 to house a general store below and an apartment above. Today it is the last clapboard-clad commercial building in the old downtown.[20][21]
Five contributing buildings at the Five Points intersection,[23] comprising the 1895 Williams building[24] and four later 20th-Century Commercial-style buildings: the 1914 Andrews building,[25] the 1929 Metropolitan Store building,[26] its 1929 annex,[27] and its 1937 annex (then a garage).[28]
2-story Queen Anne-styled house built in 1894 in the subdivision that blacksmith-cum-real-estate developer Buckley himself platted. The original hitching post is still at the curb.[31][32]
2.5-story Greek Revival-styled inn built for Patrick Kelley in 1853 along the Watertown Plank Road. In 1887 the west half was refitted as Dr. H.G.B. Nixon's medical office, and in 1937 expanded to handle emergencies.[33][34]
Greek Revival-styled, cut limestone farmhouse built between late 1850s and 60s by English immigrant wheat farmer Camp and his wife Mary.[35] Converted in 1931 to a children's summer camp called Lannon Field Farm.[36]
Neighborhood of curving streets built from 1926 to 1938 on the site of the O.M. Sanger Hickory Stock Farm after it was bought by Dr. Byron Caples and subdivided.[37] Houses include mostly Tudor Revival like the 1928 Estberg house,[38] some Colonial Revival like the 1938 Frame house,[39] a few Georgian Revivals like the 1932 Youmans house,[40] and the 1931 Mediterranean Revival Hein house.[41][42]
Greek Revival-styled house built in 1844 for Castleman, a pioneer physician, attendee of the State Constitutional Convention, Civil War veteran, author, regent of the UW, and charter member of the Medical Society of Wisconsin.[43][44]
Graceful Gothic Revival-styled chapel with limestone walls at Nashotah House seminary, designed by Milwaukee architect James Douglas and built from 1859 to 1866.
Gothic Revival-styled house, with pointed-arch windows, bulls-eye windows, and flared eaves. Built in 1865 for Cook, Waukesha County's first district attorney.[58][59]
Large, Greek Revival-styled frame house with full pediment, built in 1845 by the founder of Waukesha in what is now Cutler Park. Moved to current location in 1902.[63][64]
Greek Revival-styled farmhouse with limestone walls built about 1855 for Davis, a wheat and wool farmer and investor in a local limestone quarry.[66][67]
Station where the state produced walleye and bassfry to stock lakes and streams from 1907 to 1950. The 1907 Tudor Revival admin and walleye-tank building remains.
Highly intact 2-story Queen Anne house built in 1894, with bargeboards and porches topped with metal cresting. Fabacker had the house built, but the Thomas Edwards family lived there almost 60 years.[104][105]
2-story cream brick Italianate home designed by E. Townsend Mix and built in 1879, with original parquet floors and marble fireplaces intact. Frame was a leading banker.[106][107]
Frame building with jerkinhead gable-ends, built in 1912 as an "amusement hall," which hosted dances, receptions, political meetings, rollerskating, theater performances, graduations for rural schools, VFW meetings, polling, and town meetings.[108][109]
Remains of mill complex begun by Benjamin Jenkins about 1848, and later operated by James Proctor. Includes mill ruins, dam, mill race, Proctor's 1876 house, and a wool-carding shed.[110]
Neoclassical-styled resort built about 1911, late in Waukesha's "curative springs" era. Claiming its mud had therapeutic powers, this resort grew from 30 guestrooms to 200. A.k.a. "Moor Mud Baths.[114][115]
Benjamin Carpenter built the initial fieldstone house in 1839. In 1850 John Gredler expanded that building with a 2-story brick Greek Revival-styled front, producing a saltbox form. Gustav Gramins' family farmed there from 1900 to 1955.[116][117]
French eclectic-styled house with walls clad in lannon stone and a slate roof, designed by Matthew Berres and built in 1932 for Hoeltz, a retired farmer who owned the Libby-McNeal Canning Company.[130][131]
Greek Revival-styled house begun in the 1850s. Henry and Elizabeth Hoos were early owners, if not the first. In 1883 it was bought by George Rowell, grandson of a founder of I.B. Rowell Company, which built agricultural implements.[134][135]
2-story frame Italianate-styled house built in 1871, with incised detailing in the porch and the window hoods. Samuel was a dry goods merchant and a founder of the National Exchange Bank.[138][139]
High Victorian Gothic house built in 1874, with cream brick walls, tall narrow windows and gables, and wooden decoration in the gable ends. Formerly listed as John Howitt House.[142][143]
Greek Revival-styled house with large pedimentedportico, built 1842. The first owner was Isaac Lain, carpenter, businessman and civic leader; later Edward Estberg, banker and mayor of Waukesha; more recently an American Legion post.[156][157]
2.5-story house with Gothic Revival massing, decorated bargeboards, and Queen Anne-style shingles in the gable ends, built in 1891 for the owner of the Marble Gloss Lime Company, who was also the first village president and a leader of the Farm's and Merchant's Bank.[158][159]
3 25-foot-tall kilns with vertical cylindrical shafts built in 1890 by Mace. Nearby are the ruins of three kilns built by Frederick Nehs in 1845.[160][161]
Cluster of old stores and factories, including the Coates and Ostrander store built in the late 1860s, the 1891 Enterprise Roller Mill, and the 1891 Fraser building, at left in photo.
Queen Anne-styled house with bulbous corner tower designed by C.C. Anderson and built in 1897 for photographer Mann. Has housed the Waukesha Women's Club since 1927.[169][170]
2-story Mediterranean Revival-styled civic building, with curved parapets and octagonal bell tower, designed by Hugo Haeuser and built in 1929 to house the city hall, fire station, and library.[173][174]
Highly intact Queen Anne-style house built in 1890, probably based on plan #190 in (Robert) Shoppell's Modern Houses. Charles Merten, a printer, bought the house in 1907 and his family lived there for 80 years.[177][178]
Greek Revival-styled house with limestone walls built about 1858 for farmer John Fehl, with the basement constructed in an unusual way. Later owned by Milwaukee businessman Charles Miller and Mrs. Walter Davidson, widow of a Harley-Davidson president.[179][180]
Cream brick Italian Villa-styled house with 3-story tower, built about 1877. Dr. Volney was a homeopathic physician in Waukesha from 1866 to 1886.[181][182]
Small stucco-clad reinforced concrete structure designed by Martin F. White in Art Deco style to somewhat blend in to its residential neighborhood. Built in 1931 by Charles S. Reid for the Waukesha Water Dept.[183][184]
Very intact Craftsman-influenced bungalow built in 1931 by Paul Miller for developer Ted Morey. The building is clad in coursed cobblestone, with a wide front porch beneath a sunburst design and jerkinhead gables. A.A. Andrews and his wife bought the house in 1933.[185][186]
Another very intact cobblestone-clad Craftsman bungalow built by Paul Miller in Ted Morey's subdivision. This one was built in 1927. The front door is flanked by sidelights and sheltered beneath a gable-roofed porch. Even the flower boxes are clad in cobblestone. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis bought the house in 1949.[187][188]
Another intact cobblestone-clad Craftsman-influenced bungalow built by Paul Miller in Ted Morey's subdivision. This one was built in 1929 and has larger cobbles than the other two. Raymond and Beulah Seidens bought the house in 1932.[189][190]
Home of Ted Morey, who developed the surrounding subdivision of Westowne - one of the first suburbs of Waukesha. The house was built in 1928, originally a Tudor Revival-style cottage. Morey expanded it around 1939 to the current two-story Southern Colonial-style home.[191]
The original 2-room school was built in 1926 - red-brick with a hip roof designed by William J. Redden. Expansions were added to the back in 1949, 1951, 1952 and 1956 as population grew. Finally served as an elementary school until it closed in 2017.[192]
Built in 1921, this was the first armory built after Wisconsin passed its Armory Aid Act. Designed by Henry Hengels, its style is Spanish Mission, with stucco walls and red tile roof. It also served as a social center for athletic matches, dances, shows, etc.[194][195]
3-story Italianate-styled hotel with walls of rock-faced limestone and a broad cornice, built on a corner by John Sperber in 1871, during Waukesha's springs era.[196][197]
2-story Italianate-styled house with hip roof and cupola. The walls are two feet thick, built with fieldstone that Enoch picked on his surrounding farm. He had two masons split the stone in the winter of 1867/68 and built the house in 1868.[198][199]
Large, intact Tudor Revival-styled house built about 1909 for the family of businessman Nelson. Exterior is limestone and stucco. Inside is a large living room with oak beams and a large stone fireplace.[200][201]
Modest pumping station of the city water department designed by Martin White in Art Deco style and built by Klug and Smith in 1948. Structure is reinforced concrete clad in stucco, with fluted piers.[202][203]
2.5-story late Queen Anne-styled house with lattice design in the gable peaks, a striking chimney, and a carriage house behind. Nickell was a farmer who and served as county treasurer and sheriff, and moved into town in 1892, when he built the house.[204][205]
Cream brick municipal building with square clock tower, designed by George Ferry in Romanesque Revival style and built in 1886. It housed city offices, police and fire departments, municipal court, and social events.[208][209]
2.5-story stagecoach inn built by Israel McConnell in 1850-51 along the Milwaukee–Watertown Plank Road. The walls are 8-inch oak planks laid horizontal on top of each other, perhaps the only remaining example of this technique in the state.[214][215]
Municipal building with corner turrets and a large square tower in Richardsonian Romanesque style, with sections built in 1885, 1893, and 1938.[216][217]
Frame Italianate-styled farmhouse built c. 1880 and owned by Welsh immigrants the Olivers. Farm also includes a square stone silo, a frame horse barn, and a fieldstone shed.[218]
Greek Revival-styled home started around 1846 for Hosea Townsend, Oconomowoc's first physician. Bought in 1872 by the Pecks from Chicago, who expanded it, adding the columns.
Fine 2.5-story Stick style house on an island in Lac La Belle, designed by Cass Chapman with bay windows, flared eaves, and a widow's walk. Peck's father probably made most of his money in early Chicago real estate.[227][228]
Finest remaining blacksmith shop in Waukesha, built in 1892 by Gustave Pokrandt to service horses and buggies. By the 1920s it was transitioning to service autos.[229][230]
Three sections: the 1870 3-story Italianate-styled Orient Building, the 1882 Putney Block, and the 1891 2-story Queen Anne-styled New Putney Block. Over the years, occupants included a jeweler, a drug store, a confectionery, a department store, dry goods stores, a grocery, dentists, insurance agents, lawyers, a physician, an orchestra, the IOOF, Masons, and Elks.[235][236]
Large "English style" (early Tudor Revival) house with half-timbering and porte cochere, built in 1901 for Frank, a Civil War vet, lawyer, expander of the Putney Block, executive in a bank, a gas company, and a light company, and assistant Secretary of State of Wisconsin.[237][238]
Large resort hotel designed by Armand Koch in Neoclassical style and built by John H. Foster & Sons in 1905, at the end of Waukesha's Springs Era, financed by Frederick Pabst and Charles Pfister among others. It aimed to be a place where overworked businessmen restored their health, but lasted only ten years, then serving as a V.A. hospital, then a TB hospital.[239][240]
Collection of historic campus buildings, including the 1857 rectory, the unique Shingle style Memorial Hall built in 1893, and the castle-like halls designed by Thomas Van Alyea from 1906 to 1930.
Includes the 1953 school with a convent for FranciscanSisters on the top floor designed by Flad and Assoc, the 1960 school addition and rectory also designed by Flad, and the 1964 Contemporary-style church building designed by Wenzel, Zoller and Gunn and clad in lannon stone and mosaic glass designed by Conrad Pickel.[241][242]
2.5-story cream brick Queen Anne-styled house built in 1886. Sanger was a tanner, farmer, and sheriff who built the house as part of his Hickory Park Stock Farm. Starting in 1898 it housed Dr. Bryon Caples' Waukesha Springs Sanitarium for nervous disorders, and later a convent.[243][244]
Historic structures at a rural crossroads that grew around a mill, including the 1841/1928 Saylesville dam,[245] the 1849 William Brown Blacksmith shop,[246] the 1871 Saylesville Mill,[247] the 1876 Allen house,[248] the 1890 Community Hall,[249] and the 1918 WWI memorial.[250][251]
Frame farmhouse with Italianate-style details, built in 1859 by German immigrants, with some remaining farm buildings, in an area where little is left of farming.[252]
Brick mansion designed by Charles Gombert with Victorian Gothic-styled exterior and a Renaissance Revival interior and built in 1879. Henry, a son of a wealthy Chicago wagon maker, vacationed, farmed, and entertained in this house.[253][254]
1841. First stone house in Waukesha, with walls of coursed cut limestone from Lyman Goodnow's quarry, the first quarry in Waukesha. Sloan was an attorney, first treasurer of Waukesha county, and partner of Alexander Randall.[259][260]
Polygonal pavilion with limestone base, built in 1938 with local labor and Works Progress Administration funds, as a focal point for the village's park.[267][268]
2-room schoolhouse built in 1849 by Yankee farmers, with simple Greek Revival style seen in the pitch of the roof, the frieze boards, and the cornice with returns.[275][276]
Neoclassical-styled post office with semicurcular portico and copper-clad dome, designed under Oscar Wenderoth and built in 1913 - the first federally-owned post office in Waukesha.[277][278]
Factory with prominent 7-story tower, built 1913-16 by the maker of Jiffy-Jell, the first fruit-flavored gelatin dessert to be sold nationally. That company closed in 1921 and the building was later used by the Waukesha Mineral Water Company.[279][280]
Large, restrained late Queen Anne-style house with cylindrical turret built 1888 for Welch, the head of the White Rock Mineral Spring Company. From 1909 to 1913 housed Dr. Albert Hodgson's Still Rock Sanitarium, which specialized in treating diabetes and kidney disease. Later housed employees of White Rock Springs' bottling plant.[281][282]
Octagon house with 18-inch thick concrete walls, built by blacksmith Deacon West in 1856. Burned around 1873 except for the concrete walls, and rebuilt with Italianate-style details by Col. N.P. Inglehart.
Historic diversified apple/dairy farm, with a home orchard of standard-sized apple trees probably started around 1900, including heirloom varieties like the Calville Blanc d'hiver and the Black Gilliflower, a 1906 gambrel-roofed bank dairy barn, a 1910 Craftsman-style house built by George Koeffler,[283] and a small commercial apple orchard started around 1939.[284]
Typical, relatively intact 19th century diversified farmstead, including the 1879 cream brick farmhouse with Italianate-style details,[285] the 1889 gable-roofed post-and-beam bank barn, and a 1920 tile silo.[286][287]
Cohesive group of four historic homes, consisting of the 1870 Italianate-styled Putney cottage,[288] the 1883-84 Second Empire-styled Hadfield house,[289] the 1880s Victorian Italianate Street/Waite house,[290] and the 1900 Second Empire Showerman house.[291][292]
Two remnants of Wisconsin's first facility for juvenile delinquents, and the first in the western states: the 1911 Lyon Cottage dormitory, and the 1914 Harvey Philip School building.[293][294]
Greek Revival-styled house built in 1860 by another Prussian immigrant, with a barn, chicken house, hog barn, corn crib, etc probably built 1892 to 1926.[299]
Delisted when it was relocated to British Columbia for Expo '76. The carousel was relocated to West Nyack, New York in 1997. The Carousel was returned to the Register under a new listing (Ref# 01000583) in 2001.[303][304]
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↑ The latitude and longitude information provided is primarily from the National Register Information System, and has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. For 1%, the location info may be way off. We seek to correct the coordinate information wherever it is found to be erroneous. Please leave a note in the Discussion page for this article if you believe any specific location is incorrect.
1 2 Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
↑ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
↑ Katherine P. Stevenson; Robert F. Boszhardt; Charles R. Moffat; Philip H. Salkin; Thomas C. Pleger; James L. Theler; Constance M. Arzigian (1997). "The Woodland Tradition". The Wisconsin Archeologist. 78 (1/2): 165.
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