This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Ozaukee 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]
There are 41 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Brick once-rural one-room school built in 1929, designed by William Redden in Classical Revival style. Served as a school until consolidation in the 1960s.[5][6]
2.5-story Queen Anne-style home built in 1900 for Bolens, newspaper-man, inventor, manufacturer (of printing presses, gas engines, two-cylinder automobile and garden tractors), Port Washington mayor and state senator.[7][8]
180-foot bridge over Cedar Creek, built with a latticed pine truss frame covered with board and batten. The last remaining original covered bridge in Wisconsin. Built 1876, retired 1962.[24][25]
One of the oldest known buildings in Mequon, the 1.5 story cottage was built by Yankee Isham Day in 1839, before the German influx. The construction is unusual, with walls framed in vertical sawn timbers joined by mortise and tenon and infilled with brick.[26][27]
1.5-story Greek Revival-styled home built in 1848 and faced rather whimsically with small cobblestones from the Lake Michigan beach, arranged in colored bands. Also known as Pebble House.[28][29]
Cluster of 11 parcels on the west side of Green Bay Road, which the government built in the 1830s to connect Milwaukee with Fort Howard. Structures include the 1884 Queen Anne-styled Hoeft house,[31] the 1889 Gierach Blacksmith/Grocery Shop,[32] the 1909 Queen Anne Staudy house,[33] and the 1929 Hadler Harness and Printing Shop.[34][35]
The hamlet of Hamilton was once the bustling first stage stop from Milwaukee on the Green Bay Road, but development largely paused when the railroad bypassed it. Buildings include the 1847 Ranken-Schleifer house,[36] the 1854 Greek RevivalJanssen house,[37] the ruins of the 1860 Lindner store,[38] the 1861 Hentschel General Store,[39] and the 1867 ItalianateTurn Halle,[40] many of which are stone.[41]
Well-preserved mill complex on Cedar Creek, including the 1865 Greek Revival-styled mill office and store, the main mill building, the 1893 dye house, and the 1896 powerhouses. Produced yarns, flannels, blankets and mackinaws to substitute for cotton products after the Civil War, operating until 1968.[42]
104 foot wood-hulled steam-screw barge built in 1883 by Albert Burgoyne at Benton Harbor. Hauled mostly lumber until November of 1895, when she ran aground during a gale and broke up.[46]
Now-domesticated farm, including 1855 Greek Revival-styled farmhouse, an 1855 summer kitchen, an 1855 basement barn, and an 1861-1880 pig barn, now remodeled as a home. Jahn was an immigrant from Saxony who farmed, surveyed, and served in various local public offices.[47][48]
2-story clapboard industrial building built in 1863. The building was turned into a factory to manufacture pearl buttons from the shells of freshwater mussels in 1892 and operated into the first decade of the 20th century. At the button factory was Waubeka's largest employer.[49][50]
The wreck of the Niagara, a 225-foot side-wheeled steamboat built in 1846 in Buffalo. Caught fire and sank in 1856, taking the lives of 60 of its 300 passengers.[61]
Elaborate Tudor Revival-styled mansion designed by Herman Bruns of Milwaukee and built in 1928 in a unit of the Fromm Bros.-Nieman fox farm - at that time the nation's largest breeder of silver foxes.[62][63]
81-foot lakeshoring schooner, built in 1850 by John Oades of Clayton, NY. In 1868 she was damaged while loading wood, started leaking badly, and sank off Port Ulao while being towed to Milwaukee for repair.[64][65]
John O'Brien started the farm in 1846, building the Greek Revival-styled fieldstone farmhouse and the haybarn and granary around 1850. In 1855 German immigrants John and Henriette Pueschel bought the farm and their family farmed it for over 100 years, adding the 1874 barn, the 1900 corn crib, the 1900 well house, the 1900 outhouse and a 1910 silo.[66]
1848 Greek Revival-styled stagecoach inn with a ballroom on the third floor, built by English immigrant and Saukville founder William Payne where the Dekorra Military Road (now roughly Highway 33) met the Green Bay Road.
Lighthouse built in 1860, where the light-keeper lived with his family. In 1934 it was remodeled into two apartments for use by the Light Service and later the Coast Guard.
402-foot steam screw built in 1896 by the Detroit Dry Dock Company. In October 1929, heading from Milwaukee to Detroit carrying 241 (or 268?) Nash autos, she collided with the Marquette in a heavy fog and sank quickly, with 7 men lost.[67][68]
73-foot scow-schooner built by Gunder Jorgenson in Manitowoc in 1876. In 1903, running from Muskegon to Milwaukee under Captain John Sather with a load of lumber, she sank in a storm ten miles from her destination, with one crewman lost.[69]
Much of old downtown Cedarburg, including the 1847 Cedarburg Brewery Complex, the 1853 Greek Revival Schroeder house, the 1853 Stagecoach Inn, the 1870 Romanesque Revival St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church, the 1870 Italianate Hoehn Furniture Store, the 1873 Groth's Hardware, the 1882 Gothic Revival Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, the 1885 Queen Anne-styled Weisler Hotel, the 1886 Washington House Inn, the 1894 Lincoln Public School, and the 1926 pagoda-styled Wadham's Filling Station.
^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.
^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.
^Filipowicz, Diane H.; Riehle, Dr. and Mrs. Eugene (January 1983). "Bolens, Harry W., House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
^Anderson, Donald N. (1973-07-26). "Cedarburg Mill". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
^ abRankin, Katherine H. (1983-02-03). "Mills of Grafton Thematic Resources". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-04. (Viewable with Edge browser.)
^Filipowicz, Diane H.; Custer, Dr. Gregory E. (December 1981). "Jonathan Clark House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
^Schnell, Traci E.; Faltinson, Brian J. (June 2003). "Green Bay Road Historic District". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
^Schnell, Traci E.; Faltinson, Brian J. (May 2003). "Main Street Historic District". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
