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.[1]
There are 63 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
134-foot wooden schooner (or maybe a brig?) built in 1847 at Charles Stevens' shipyard in Irving, New York. Hauled grain, lumber, and railroad hardware on the Great Lakes until September 1855, when it capsized in a squall while sailing from Chicago to Oconto.[6][7]
117-foot wooden two-masted schooner built in 1853 by James M. Jones of Milwaukee. Hauled lumber and grain on the Great Lakes until 1885, when it sank in a gale while carrying a load of tan bark. Four sailors drowned and one survived.[8][9]
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.[10] Now a hotel and restaurant.
200-foot screw steamer built in 1891 by the Cleveland Dry Dock Company for Goodrich Transport. Served as a packet boat, transporting passengers and freight around Lake Michigan. Caught fire March 18, 1906 heading from Sheboygan to Milwaukee, and abandoned, with one man lost.[11][12]
Brick factory complex where the Armour Leather Company tanned skins from their slaughterhouses. The complex was designed by Juul and Smith, and begun in 1919. After WWII, it was the largest employer in Sheboygan.[13]
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.[14][15]
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.[16]
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.[17][18]
This block within a bend of the Sheboygan River was once the first permanent settlement in Sheboygan County, clustered around a mill.[19] It consists of the 1837 Mill House,[20] the 1842 Charles Cole home, the 1846 Cole Brothers house,[21] the 1846 Thorp Hotel,[22] and the 1848 Cole Store [23] - all in Greek Revival style.
The old downtown, including the 1848 Italianate Hill woolen shawl mill,[30] the 1877 frame Queen Anne Martha Whipple Music Store,[31] the 1878 block of Osthelder Saloon,[32] Sully's Dry Goods,[33] Thiemann Grocery and Bryant Drug Store,[34] the 1880 Brickner Woolen Mills,[35] the 1880 Victorian Smith Meat Market and Post Office,[36] the 1894 Queen Anne Dr. Pfeifer Office,[37] the 1895 Queen Anne Schlichting Grocery,[38] and the 1880-1920 Weisse Tannery.[39][40]
The old downtown, with 46 contributing properties[41] including the 1877 ItalianateOdd Fellows Block,[42] the 1894 Italianate/Queen Anne Radloff Building,[43] the 1905 20th Century Commercial-styled Exchange Building,[44] the 1910 Crystal-Majestic Theater,[45] and the 1920 Tudor Revival Dahl Brothers Garage.[46]
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.[47]
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.[48][49]
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.[52][53]
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.[54]
2+1⁄2-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.[55][56]
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.[57][58]
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.[59]
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.[60][61]
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.[62]
84-foot wood-hulled 2-masted scow-schooner built in 1867 by J.A. Johnson of Dover Bay. Carried lumber, hay, feed, corn and pork. Bought in 1880 by the Freyberg Brothers of Washington Island to carry lumber to their mill in Sheboygan and return with groceries. Sank in 1890 after hitting a schooner.[63][64]
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.[65][66]
1885 2-story factory with timber frame clad in cream brick with Richardsonian Romanesque stylings. Jacob Jung's company built carriages, wagons and sleighs.[67][68]
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.[69]
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.[70]
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.[71][72]
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.[73][74]
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.[75]
136-foot wooden schooner built in 1853 by J. Oades of Clayton, NY and rigged as a barkentine named Northern Light. In 1866 a second centerboard was added and she was rerigged as a 3-masted schooner. In November 1890, hauling 700 tons of coal, a gale drove her onto rocks where she broke up.[81][82]
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.[83][84]
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.[85][86]
2.5-story home designed by Leenhouts and Guthrie and built in 1903, which combines Craftsman style with Queen Anne Free Classic style. Charles operated the Rietz Distillery.[88]
101-foot wood-hulled screw steamer built in 1903 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding. Carried package freight around the Apostle Islands briefly, then carried passengers to Whitefish Bay Park until 1908 for Frederick Pabst. Sank in June 1922 while towing the steamer Venezuela for the Pringle Barge Line, after hitting a submerged object.[91]
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.[92]
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.)[93][94]
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.[95][96]
The Selah Chamberlain was a 212-foot wooden bulk carrier built in 1873, in Cleveland, Ohio by the Quayle & Murphy shipyard. She hauled bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal and grain between Duluth, Minnesota and Buffalo, New York. She sank in 1886 after a collision with the John Pridgeon Jr. Her wreck lies in 90 feet (27 m) of water.[98]
The original section, built in 1928, is the oldest intact school building in the town, and was designed by Oppenhamer & Obel in Collegiate Gothic style as a high school.[100]
Moderne-style public building designed by Edgar Stubenrauch and built in 1942 with help from the WPA. Housed the Sheboygan Red Skins, one of the first teams in the NBA. It was torn down in late 2020.
Historic resort complex in Elkhart Lake, including the 1882 Belleview Hotel, the 1882 Opera House, the 1888 Lake Cottage, the 1921 Ice Cream Stand, and the 1925 Elm Park Hotel.[106]
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.[107]
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.[112][113]
Fanciful Queen Anne cottage, designed by Charles Hilpertshauser of Chicago and built in 1901 for lumberman A.B. Laun as a lakeside family retreat.[114][115]
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.[116][117]
2+1⁄2-story Greek Revival-styledstagecoach 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.[118][119]
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.[120]
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.[122][123]
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.[124][125]
^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.
^Adams, Peter J.; Mulvey, Jeffrey H. (1984-07-01). "Mission House Historic District". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
^Causier, Charles W.; Jurkiewecz, Joseph G. (1993-12-29). "Plymouth Post Office". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
^Causier, Charles; Jurkiewicz, Joseph G. (1993-12-29). "Sheboygan Post Office". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
^Filipowicz, Diane H.; Wintzer, Mrs. Fred E. (March 1982). "Villa von Baumbach". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
