National Register of Historic Places listings in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin facts for kids
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
There are 61 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Description | |
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| 1 | American Club |
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(#78000141) |
419 Highland Drive 43°44′23″N 87°46′51″W / 43.739722°N 87.780833°W |
Kohler | Originally a generous dormitory at Kohler Village where immigrant employees could be housed and Americanized. Designed by Richard Philipp in a loosely Tudor style and built in 1918. Now a hotel and restaurant. |
| 2 | John Balzer Wagon Works Complex |
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(#92000028) |
818-820, 820A Pennsylvania Ave. 43°45′00″N 87°42′48″W / 43.75°N 87.713333°W |
Sheboygan | Very-intact 3-story brick wagon factory with elevator, built in 1887. Shifted around 1915 from wagons to building car and truck bodies, then shifted to a general welding shop around 1938. |
| 3 | Thomas M. and Bridget Blackstock House |
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(#95000256) |
507 Washington Ct. 43°45′13″N 87°42′29″W / 43.753611°N 87.708056°W |
Sheboygan | Italianate home built in 1882. Both Thomas and Bridget were Irish immigrants. He supervised on the Sheboygan and Fond du Lac Plank Road, ran a pier, a drug store, the Phoenix Chair Company, and various other enterprises. Later served as mayor, state assemblyman, etc. |
| 4 | Byron (schooner) Shipwreck |
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(#09000368) |
Address restricted 43°36′17″N 87°41′17″W / 43.604833°N 87.688167°W |
Oostburg | 36-foot wooden schooner - probably the Byron, which was built around 1849 for William Burmeister and hauled lumber and merchandise around Lake Michigan. It sank in 1867 carrying merchandise for two stores in Manitowoc, after colliding with a larger ship. |
| 5 | Cole Historic District |
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(#88002696) |
501 and 517 Monroe St. and 504, 508, and 516-518 Water St. 43°43′43″N 87°48′32″W / 43.728611°N 87.808889°W |
Sheboygan Falls | This block within a bend of the Sheboygan River was once the first permanent settlement in Sheboygan County, clustered around a mill. It consists of the 1837 Mill House, the 1842 Charles Cole home, the 1846 Cole Brothers house, the 1846 Thorp Hotel, and the 1848 Cole Store - all in Greek Revival style. |
| 6 | Downtown Churches Historic District |
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(#10000052) |
Generally bounded by Erie Ave., N. 6th St., Ontario Ave., and N. 7th St. 43°45′21″N 87°42′37″W / 43.755806°N 87.710392°W |
Sheboygan | Cluster of religious buildings near downtown Sheboygan: the Greek Revival-styled Grace Episcopal Church Rectory built in the 1850s, the 1867-71 High Victorian Gothic Grace Episcopal Church, the 1929 Neogothic First Methodist Episcopal Church, the 1937 Neogothic Hope Reformed Church, and the 1968 Contemporary-styled St. Mark Lutheran Church. |
| 7 | Downtown Historic District |
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(#84000691) |
Roughly bounded by Broadway, Monroe, Pine, and Buffalo Sts., and the Sheboygan River 43°43′41″N 87°48′43″W / 43.728056°N 87.811944°W |
Sheboygan Falls | The old downtown, including the 1848 Italianate Hill woolen shawl mill, the 1877 frame Queen Anne Martha Whipple Music Store, the 1878 block of Osthelder Saloon, Sully's Dry Goods, Thiemann Grocery and Bryant Drug Store, the 1880 Brickner Woolen Mills, the 1880 Victorian Smith Meat Market and Post Office, the 1894 Queen Anne Dr. Pfeifer Office, the 1895 Queen Anne Schlichting Grocery,and the 1880-1920 Weisse Tannery. |
| 8 | Downtown Plymouth Historic District |
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(#16000421) |
Generally bounded by the 100, 200, 300 & 400 blks. of E. Mill St. 43°44′51″N 87°58′39″W / 43.747537°N 87.977491°W |
Plymouth | The old downtown, with 46 contributing properties including the 1877 Italianate Odd Fellows Block, the 1894 Italianate/Queen Anne Radloff Building, the 1905 20th Century Commercial-styled Exchange Building, the 1910 Crystal-Majestic Theater, and the 1920 Tudor Revival Dahl Brothers Garage. |
| 9 | Elkhart Lake Road Race Circuits |
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(#06000053) |
Cty Hwys, J, P, JP, A, and Lake St. 43°49′40″N 88°01′45″W / 43.827778°N 88.029167°W |
Elkhart Lake | This 6.5 circuit of public roads (mostly county highways) was used for European-style road races once a year from 1950 to 1952. During the brief time when racing was allowed on public roads in the U.S., Elkhart Lake was a major venue in the Midwest. |
| 10 | Henry Store Foeste Building |
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(#95001063) |
522 S. Eighth St. 43°44′57″N 87°42′47″W / 43.749167°N 87.713056°W |
Sheboygan | 2-story Neoclassical building designed by William C. Weeks and built 1892-93. Foeste was a German immigrant, Sheboygan industrialist, hotel owner, and developer. The building was occupied by the public library, saloons, and a printing firm. |
| 11 | Franklin Feed Mill |
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(#85000792) |
Franklin Rd. 43°50′07″N 87°54′09″W / 43.835278°N 87.9025°W |
Franklin | Water-powered gristmill on the Sheboygan River, built by Henry Dickoff and Conrad Arpke, immigrants from Lipper Detmold, in 1856 during the wheat boom. Expanded around 1868 and upgraded from water wheel to turbines. Grinding went from stones to roller mill to hammermill. |
| 12 | Friendship House |
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(#74000331) |
721 Ontario Ave. 43°45′18″N 87°42′42″W / 43.755°N 87.711667°W |
Sheboygan | Fine Italianate villa with large cupola, built around 1872 for John Pfeiler who owned the Park Hotel on the same block. In 1910 the Kohler Foundation bought the building and it has since housed disadvantaged children. |
| 13 | Garton Toy Company |
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(#00000493) |
746, 810, 830 N. Water St., 1104 Wisconsin Ave. 43°45′12″N 87°43′08″W / 43.753333°N 87.718889°W |
Sheboygan | Third toy factory built by Eusebius Bassingdale Garton starting in 1930, after the second factory burned. Garton built red coaster wagons, croquet sets, velocipedes, pedal cars, etc., with a peak of 800 employees. |
| 14 | Glenbeulah Mill/Grist Mill |
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(#84000678) |
Gardner St. 43°47′47″N 88°02′37″W / 43.796389°N 88.043611°W |
Glenbeulah | 2.5 story frame mill built in 1857 by Yankees Swift, Dillingham, Slade & Dillingham. Probably used an overshot waterwheel to grind wheat to ship to the East Coast. Expanded in 1863 to also power a hub and spoke factory. |
| 15 | Gooseville Mill/Grist Mill |
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(#84000673) |
Silver Creek-Cascade Rd. 43°35′16″N 88°01′14″W / 43.587778°N 88.020556°W |
Adell | 2-story wooden mill on a stone foundation built by Henry Schulz in 1879, with a functional pod, dam and mill race. Originally ground grain; in later years sawed lumber. |
| 16 | Hetty Taylor (shipwreck) |
(#05000535) |
Lake Michigan, 7 mi. SE of Sheboygan R. 43°41′00″N 87°39′17″W / 43.683333°N 87.654722°W |
Sheboygan | 84-foot two-masted schooner built in 1874 by Allen, McClelland and Co. of Milwaukee. Hauled wood products and merchandise around Lake Michigan until August 1880, when she sank in a squall. | |
| 17 | Hotel Laack |
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(#85003095) |
52 Stafford St. 43°44′50″N 87°58′39″W / 43.747222°N 87.9775°W |
Plymouth | 3-story hotel designed by Charles Hilpertshauser in Queen Anne style and built in 1892 for H. C. Laack. It had a sample room where salesmen showed their wares, and stood across the street from the Plymouth Cheese Exchange. |
| 18 | Henry H. Huson House and Water Tower |
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(#80000196) |
405 Collins St. 43°44′44″N 87°58′34″W / 43.745556°N 87.976111°W |
Plymouth | Eclectic house built in 1871 and expanded in 1873, with a 3-story wooden water tower across the street, once topped by a windmill. Huson built the water tower privately in 1887, before city water. |
| 19 | Henry and Charles Imig Block |
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(#98000849) |
625-629 N. Eighth St. 43°45′11″N 87°42′45″W / 43.753056°N 87.7125°W |
Sheboygan | 2-story High Victorian Italianate triple store with polychromatic brickwork and an elaborate cornice, built in 1881-82. The two Imigs were Sheboygan's most successful clothing sellers. The block also housed their brother Jacob's boot and shoe store and a drugstore. |
| 20 | Jung Carriage Factory |
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(#74000125) |
829-835 Pennsylvania Ave. 43°44′59″N 87°42′52″W / 43.749722°N 87.714444°W |
Sheboygan | 1885 2-story factory with timber frame clad in cream brick with Richardsonian Romanesque stylings. Jacob Jung's company built carriages, wagons and sleighs. |
| 21 | Jung Shoe Manufacturing Company Factory |
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(#91001993) |
620 S. Eighth St. 43°44′53″N 87°42′47″W / 43.748056°N 87.713056°W |
Sheboygan | 2-story U-shaped factory designed by Sheboygan architect William C. Weeks in Neoclassical style and built from 1906 to 1912 for Henry and Otto Jung. |
| 22 | Kletzien Mound Group (47-SB-61) |
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(#81000061) |
5000 South 9th Street 43°41′45″N 87°43′08″W / 43.6958°N 87.7189°W |
Sheboygan | Effigy mounds within Sheboygan Indian Mound Park, including deer mounds, panther, linear, oval and conical mounds. Adam Kletzien protected these mounds from the 1920s to 1952. |
| 23 | Kohler Company Factory Complex |
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(#01000318) |
444 Highland Dr. 43°44′28″N 87°46′34″W / 43.741111°N 87.776111°W |
Kohler | Large, very intact complex of the Kohler Company, located in the planned community of Kohler, including the enamel shop begun in 1901, the foundry begun in 1920, the 1925 office building (pictured), and the pottery building begun in 1928. |
| 24 | John Michael Kohler House |
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(#82001850) |
608 New York Ave. 43°45′08″N 87°42′35″W / 43.752222°N 87.709722°W |
Sheboygan | Italianate house built in 1882 for Austrian immigrant and Kohler Company founder John Michael. Refashioned around 1920 by Richard Philipp for Walter Sr. Now houses the Kohler Arts Center. |
| 25 | Rudolph Lueder 13 Sided Barn |
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(#16000768) |
W4651 Cty. Rd. J 43°47′21″N 87°55′46″W / 43.789059°N 87.929438°W |
Plymouth | Large 48-cow centric barn, built 1915-16 by Adolph Suhrke, with a double-brick wall, an air circulation system, and a silo in the middle. The 13th side is extra long for the barn door. Still used for dairy, as of 2016. |
| 26 | Mission House Historic District |
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(#84001221) |
County Trunk M 43°50′31″N 87°52′44″W / 43.841944°N 87.878889°W |
Herman | Historic buildings of Mission House Seminary and College of the German Reformed Church, including the 1888 Victorian Gothic Recitation Hall, the 1917 Neoclassical Jubilee Dormitory, the 1924 Colonial Revival Dr. Darms Residence, and the 1932 Founders' Gymnasium and Auditorium. Now part of Lakeland College. |
| 27 | Onion River Flouring Mill/Grist Mill |
(#84000679) |
Hwy 57 43°40′32″N 87°56′28″W / 43.675556°N 87.941111°W |
Waldo | Gristmill on the Onion River with oldest section built in 1859 by Abner Heald and Mark and Alonzo Martin. It once shipped flour from the docks of Sheboygan to Boston and New York. | |
| 28 | Plymouth Post Office |
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(#00001242) |
302 E. Main St. 43°44′57″N 87°58′37″W / 43.749167°N 87.976944°W |
Plymouth | 1-story Art Moderne-styled federal post office built in 1940 with help form the Public Works Administration, with a 1941 mural, "Cheese Making" by Charles W. Thwaites in the lobby. |
| 29 | Eliza Prange House |
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(#15000189) |
605 Erie Ave. 43°45′23″N 87°42′37″W / 43.7563°N 87.7103°W |
Sheboygan | Mediterranean Revival-style house designed by William C. Weeks and built in 1923 for Eliza Prange, a founder of the Prange department store chain. |
| 30 | Riverbend |
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(#80000197) |
1161 W Lower Falls Rd. 43°43′44″N 87°47′26″W / 43.728846°N 87.790475°W |
Kohler | Estate of Walter J. Kohler Sr. on a bend of the Sheboygan River, built to resemble an English manor. The rambling Tudor Revival house was designed by Richard Philipp and built 1921-23, and the grounds were designed by the Olmsted Brothers. |
| 31 | Charles Robinson House |
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(#84001125) |
Center St., Old Wade House State Park 43°46′34″N 88°05′10″W / 43.776111°N 88.086111°W |
Greenbush | Elegant Greek Revival house with a widow's walk and an unusual veranda, built by Robinson, a carpenter, real estate speculator, and son-in-law to Sylvanus Wade, probably around 1855. |
| 32 | Robinson-Herrling Sawmill |
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(#84000685) |
Old Wade House State Park 43°46′42″N 88°05′08″W / 43.778333°N 88.085556°W |
Greenbush | Ruins of a sawmill and dam built around 1847 by Charles Robinson, bought in 1856 by Prussian immigrant Theodore Herrling, and operated until 1911. (Photo shows a reconstruction.) |
| 33 | Henry and Henriette Roth House |
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(#93000337) |
822 Niagara Ave. 43°45′16″N 87°42′49″W / 43.754444°N 87.713611°W |
Sheboygan | 2-story brick home built in 1856 which combines elements of Greek Revival, Italianate, and other styles. Henry had immigrated from Arnstadt, Germany to work as a mason. After an injury, he focused on his Sheboygan Lime Company. After he died in 1887, his second wife Henriette from Brandenburg, Germany ran the business until 1928. |
| 34 | S and R Cheese Company |
(#100000631) |
2-18 E. Main St. 43°44′55″N 87°58′50″W / 43.748731°N 87.980461°W |
Plymouth | Brick and block factory designed by Henry Schwalberg, built in 1891, and added on to in 1912. | |
| 35 | Sheboygan County Courthouse |
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(#82000713) |
615 N. 6th St. 43°45′04″N 87°42′31″W / 43.751111°N 87.708611°W |
Sheboygan | 7-story Moderne-style monolith built in 1933 during the Great Depression, with PWA assistance. |
| 37 | Sheboygan Theater |
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(#99001606) |
826 N. Eighth St. 43°45′14″N 87°42′47″W / 43.753889°N 87.713056°W |
Sheboygan | 1550-seat movie palace with an interior designed to suggest a night in a Spanish garden by United Studios of Chicago and built in 1927-28 for Universal Pictures Company. Now the Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts. |
| 38 | Sheboygan Valley Land and Lime Company |
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(#16000757) |
W6631 County Road MM 43°51′18″N 88°01′40″W / 43.855088°N 88.027776°W |
Rhine | Limestone quarry and kilns for producing quicklime, constructed in 1911 and abandoned in the 1920s. A.k.a. Quasius Quarry. |
| 39 | Silver Lake (scow-schooner) Shipwreck |
(#13000128) |
7 miles (11 km) northeast of Sheboygan in Lake Michigan 43°48′21″N 87°34′42″W / 43.8059°N 87.5782°W |
Mosel vicinity | 98.5 foot scow-schooner with double centerboard, built by M.L. Johnson in Little Point Sable, Michigan, in 1889. Hauled cargo around Lake Michigan until May, 1900, when she was run down by the car ferry Pere Marquette in a heavy fog. | |
| 40 | St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church |
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(#83003428) |
County A 43°37′00″N 87°55′49″W / 43.616667°N 87.930278°W |
Adell | Gothic Revival-styled church with exterior of split fieldstone, built in 1877 to serve its mainly Irish-immigrant rural community. |
| 41 | David Taylor House |
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(#76000080) |
3110 Erie Ave. 43°45′10″N 87°44′52″W / 43.752778°N 87.747778°W |
Sheboygan | Cream-brick Italianate villa topped by a belvedere, built in the 1850s for David Taylor, lawyer, legislator, and prominent judge. Starting in 1905 it housed the county asylum, then workhouse. Now part of the Sheboygan County Historical Museum. |
| 42 | Third Ward School |
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(#81000062) |
1208 S. 8th St. 43°44′30″N 87°42′46″W / 43.741667°N 87.712778°W |
Sheboygan | 1876 brick 2-room school in Italianate style. In 1918 it was converted to a "fresh air school" for children with tuberculosis. |
| 43 | I. C. Thomas Drug Store |
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(#74000126) |
632 N. 8th St. 43°45′06″N 87°42′47″W / 43.751667°N 87.713056°W |
Sheboygan | 3-story building with an arched brick entry originally used for horse-drawn vehicles, built in 1886, probably designed by A.L. Weeks, for Max Zaegel's pharmacy, which was bought by I.C. Thomas in 1920. |
| 44 | Villa Laun |
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(#82000714) |
402 Lake Side Park Dr. 43°49′27″N 88°01′50″W / 43.824167°N 88.030556°W |
Elkhart Lake | Fanciful Queen Anne cottage, designed by Charles Hilpertshauser of Chicago and built in 1901 for lumberman A.B. Laun as a lakeside family retreat. |
| 45 | Villa Von Baumbach |
(#82001851) |
754 Elkhart Lake Dr. 43°49′48″N 88°01′36″W / 43.83°N 88.026667°W |
Elkhart Lake | Modest private cottage designed by Otto Strack and built for Major Charles von Baumbach in 1894 as part of the Swartz Hotel, then moved in 1908 to its current site. Includes "hunting lodge" living room and 2-story pavilion/boathouse. Von Baumbach was a German immigrant, Civil War veteran, and drug distributor. | |
| 46 | Sylvanus Wade House |
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(#71000041) |
At jct. of WI 23 and Kettle Moraine Dr. in Old Wade House State Park 43°46′36″N 88°05′05″W / 43.776694°N 88.084779°W |
Greenbush | 2.5 story Greek Revival-styled stagecoach inn built around 1849, half-way along the Fond du Lac-Sheboygan Plank Road. The attic contains a ballroom and closet-sized rooms for the stagecoach drivers. Now a museum, with many furnishings intact. |
| 47 | Walter B. Allen (canaller) Shipwreck |
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(#11000811) |
7 miles northeast of Sheboygan in Lake Michigan 43°53′05″N 87°41′01″W / 43.884667°N 87.6835°W |
Mosel | 2-masted schooner-rigged canaller, built in 1866 in Ogdensburg, NY, sized to just fit through the Welland Canal locks. Hauled grain east from Chicago to Buffalo or Oswego and coal west. Sank while being towed through a storm in 1880 and now sits under 175 feet of water, very intact. |
| 48 | Washington Elementary School |
(#100000680) |
1238 Geele Ave. 43°46′07″N 87°43′17″W / 43.768487°N 87.721267°W |
Sheboygan | Neoclassical-styled school designed by H.C. Koch & Sons and built in 1912. Gym and classrooms were added in 1926, with more expansion in 2000. | |
| 49 | Windway |
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(#88001149) |
2311 County Road Y 43°46′10″N 87°46′40″W / 43.769551°N 87.777892°W |
Sheboygan | International-style home with a Wright-influenced floor plan, designed by William Deknatel and Geraldine Eager Deknatel and built in 1937 as the home of Walter J. Kohler, industrialist and governor of Wisconsin. |
| 50 | Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory |
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(#91001989) |
531 S. Eighth St. 43°44′56″N 87°42′44″W / 43.748889°N 87.712222°W |
Sheboygan | 3.5-story Romanesque Revival-styled shoe factory built in 1885 by builder Jacob Jung and sons for a partnership with leather tanner Theodore Zchetzche and shoe manufacturer and retailer Charles Wolff. Expanded in 1889. Later housed the Sellinger Glove Company. |
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