National Register of Historic Places listings in Walworth County, Wisconsin

Location of Walworth County in Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Walworth County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Walworth 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 44 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another four properties were once listed but have been removed.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted May 27, 2016.

Current listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
1	A. H. Allyn House	A. H. Allyn House	September 5, 1985 (#85001950)	511 E. Walworth Ave.	Delavan	High-style Queen Anne mansion designed by E. Townsend Mix and built in 1885 for Alexander Allyn, a wealthy farmer. Later converted to nursing home, furniture store, and back to a residence.
2	John and Margaret Bell House	John and Margaret Bell House	September 15, 1994 (#94001154)	554 Spring Prairie Rd.	Spring Prairie	1852 house built of locally quarried sandstone, with both Greek Revival and Italianate elements. Bell established the first nursery in Walworth County, with 250,000 trees in 1858.
3	Black Point	Black Point	September 15, 1994 (#94001147)	580 S. Lake Shore Dr. (Pier 580)	Linn	Well-preserved Queen Anne mansion with a 4-story lookout tower on a bluff above Geneva Lake, designed by Adolph Cudell and built in 1888 for German immigrant and Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. Now a museum.
4	Bonnie Brae	Upload image	April 3, 1986 (#86000614)	78 Snake Rd.	Linn	Queen Anne mansion built in 1881 for Judge Thomas Withrow and named for his daughter Bonnie.
5	Buena Vista House	Buena Vista House	January 18, 1978 (#78000143)	2090 Church St.	East Troy	1846 inn built in Greek Revival style by Samuel Bradley of Milwaukee. It is the largest cobblestone-clad building in the state.
6	Davidson Hall	Upload image	July 2, 1987 (#87000443)	550 S. Shore Dr.	Lake Geneva	Neoclassical building of Northwestern Military and Naval Academy on the banks of Lake Geneva, built in 1912. Now demolished.
7	Delavan Post Office	Delavan Post Office	October 24, 2000 (#00001260)	335 E. Walworth Ave.	Delavan	part of the United States Post Office Construction in Wisconsin Multiple Property Submission (MPS)
8	Delavan's Vitrified Brick Street	Delavan's Vitrified Brick Street	March 7, 1996 (#96000234)	100-300 blocks of E. Walworth Ave.	Delavan	This main business street was paved with brick in 1913, a vast improvement over the mud and dust that preceded it. Some of the original bricks are still in place.
9	Douglass-Stevenson House	Douglass-Stevenson House	April 3, 1986 (#86000615)	Main and Mill Sts.	Fontana	House built in the 1840s with some stovewood walls. Carlos Douglass operated early grist mills in Fontana, developed the lots around them, and donated land for the first school. He was later a state legislator.
10	Downtown Darien Historic District	Downtown Darien Historic District	September 4, 2013 (#13000686)	Bounded by Wisconsin St. from W. Beloit to Fremont Sts.	Darien	Commercial district which developed after the railroad arrived in the 1850s. Many of the initial wood storefronts burned in fires of 1909 and 1912 and were replaced with red brick buildings.
11	East Wing (Old Main)	East Wing (Old Main)	December 13, 1984 (#84000609)	University of Wisconsin	Whitewater	4-story Renaissance Revival building designed by Arthur Peabody and added in 1924-25 as a wing of the larger Old Main complex of the Whitewater Normal School. Most of Old Main burned in 1970, leaving only this wing, today known as Hyer Hall.
12	Edward Elderkin House	Edward Elderkin House	May 3, 1974 (#74000132)	127 S. Lincoln St.	Elkhorn	Brick 2-story octagon house with cupola, built in 1856 for lawyer Elderkin.
13	Elkhorn Band Shell	Elkhorn Band Shell	August 7, 2012 (#12000490)	Sunset Park, bounded by Devendorf, W. Centralia, & Park Sts.	Elkhorn	1926 band shell with Classical Revival styling and a wooden rear stage wall designed for good acoustics. Originally located in courthouse square, it was moved to Sunset Park in 1962. Still hosts summer concerts.
14	Elkhorn Municipal Building	Elkhorn Municipal Building	August 7, 2012 (#12000491)	9 S. Broad St.	Elkhorn	Public building designed by Edward Tough in Art Deco style and built in 1931. In early years the basement held fire department facilities, the first floor held the light and water department, city offices, and the fire department garage, the second and third floors held an auditorium and the third floor hosted the American Legion.
15	Elkhorn Post Office	Elkhorn Post Office	October 24, 2000 (#00001259)	102 E. Walworth St.	Elkhorn	Art Moderne-styled post office built in 1936, with same design as the one in Berlin. Inside is a mural painted by Tom Rost, depicting early mail delivery on horseback.
16	Grace and Pearl Historic District	Grace and Pearl Historic District	August 5, 1993 (#93000810)	Roughly bounded by Pearl, Park, Dougall, Grace and Martin Sts.	Sharon	Residential historic district of 62 contributing properties, ranging from the 1860 Manning Hoard house, to the 1875 Italianate Daniels/Pearson house, the 1893 Queen Anne Dr. Ripley house, to the 1900 Dutch Colonial Revival William Hoard house.
17	Halverson Log Cabin	Halverson Log Cabin	January 8, 1985 (#85000070)	University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Campus	Whitewater	Pioneer home built by Norwegian immigrants Gullik and Dorothea Halverson in 1846 six miles south of Whitewater. Whitewater Normal School moved it to the present location in 1907 as a museum.
18	Heart Prairie Lutheran Church	Heart Prairie Lutheran Church	December 27, 1974 (#74000133)	South of Whitewater on Town Line Rd.	Whitewater	Greek Revival church clad in cream brick and built in 1855.
19	Horticultural Hall	Horticultural Hall	September 29, 1999 (#99001220)	330 Broad St.	Lake Geneva	Craftsman-styled meeting hall built in 1912 by the Lake Geneva Horticultural Society and later used and supported by gardening clubs.
20	A.P. Johnson House	Upload image	July 9, 1982 (#82000715)	3455 S. Shore Dr.	Delavan	1905 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Prairie School home.
21	Fred B. Jones Estate		December 27, 1974 (#74000134)	3335 S. Shore Dr.	Delavan Lake	Compound of Prairie School buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built from 1900 to 1903, including gatehouse, house, boathouse, barn and stable. A.k.a. Penwern Estate.
22	Horace Loomis House	Horace Loomis House	December 3, 1974 (#74000357)	2.4 miles (3.9 km) south of East Troy at N7297 WI 120	East Troy	2-story Greek Revival house with cobblestone exterior and stone quoins, built in 1851.
23	Main Street Historic District	Main Street Historic District	December 21, 1989 (#89002116)	Roughly W. Main St./US 12 from Prairie St. to Fremont St. and Church St. from Forest Ave. to W. Main St.	Whitewater
24	Main Street Historic District		January 11, 2002 (#01001453)	Roughly Main St., from Broad St. to Center St.	Lake Geneva
25	Maple Park Historic District	Maple Park Historic District	June 17, 2005 (#05000621)	Generally bounded by North, Cook, Main and Maxwell Sts.	Lake Geneva
26	Maples Mound Group		June 7, 1991 (#91000671)	Address Restricted	Whitewater	part of the Late Woodland Stage in Archeological Region 8 MPS
27	Metropolitan Block	Metropolitan Block	April 19, 1990 (#90000559)	772 Main St.	Lake Geneva
28	Meyerhofer Cobblestone House	Upload image	December 8, 1980 (#80000202)	East of Lake Geneva on Townline Rd.	Lake Geneva
29	Mile Long Site		June 23, 1977 (#77000057)	Address Restricted	Delavan	Boundary decrease on April 2, 1982.
30	Redwood Cottage	Redwood Cottage	September 7, 1984 (#84003796)	327 Wrigley Dr.	Lake Geneva
31	Reynolds-Weed House	Reynolds-Weed House	March 31, 1983 (#83003429)	12 N. Church St.	Elkhorn
32	The Riviera	The Riviera	April 3, 1986 (#86000616)	810 Wrigley Dr.	Lake Geneva
33	Sheboygan Light, Power and Railway Company Car #26	Upload image	November 21, 2006 (#06001069)	2015 Division St.	East Troy
34	Smith and Meadows Store Buildings	Smith and Meadows Store Buildings	March 12, 1993 (#93000067)	2888-2890 Main St.	East Troy	Brick storefronts with round-arched windows, begun in 1854.
35	T. C. Smith House	Upload image	November 30, 1982 (#82001852)	865 Main St.	Lake Geneva
36	Israel Stowell Temperance House	Israel Stowell Temperance House	August 11, 1978 (#78000145)	61-65 E. Walworth Ave.	Delavan
37	James Jesse Strang House	Upload image	January 24, 1974 (#74000135)	West of Burlington on WI 11	Burlington
38	Wandawega Inn	Wandawega Inn	June 8, 2015 (#15000341)	W5453 Lake View Dr.	Sugar Creek
39	Anson Warner Farmstead	Anson Warner Farmstead	November 23, 1998 (#98001431)	N9334 Warner Rd.	Whitewater
40	Joseph P. Webster House	Joseph P. Webster House	February 23, 1972 (#72000066)	9 E. Rockwell St.	Elkhorn
41	Whitewater Hotel	Whitewater Hotel	January 21, 2010 (#09001273)	226 W. Whitewater St.	Whitewater
42	Whitewater Passenger Depot	Whitewater Passenger Depot	June 12, 2013 (#13000376)	301 W. Whitewater St.	Whitewater
43	Whitewater Post Office	Whitewater Post Office	October 24, 2000 (#00001256)	213 Center St.	Whitewater	part of the United States Post Office Construction in Wisconsin MPS
44	Younglands		September 18, 1979 (#79000116)	880 Lake Shore Dr.	Lake Geneva

Former listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	Bradley Knitting Company	Upload image	March 19, 1992 (#92000168)	April 6, 2011	902 Wisconsin St.	Delavan
2	Lake Geneva Depot	Upload image	July 31, 1978 (#78000144)	February 18, 1987	Broad St.	Lake Geneva	Demolished in August 1986
3	Loramoor	Upload image	January 16, 1980 (#80000201)	May 30, 1986	S of Lake Geneva at 774 S. Lake Shore Dr.	Lake Geneva vicinity	Demolished.
4	Phoenix Hall-Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb		March 19, 1987 (#87000492)	April 21, 2014	Wisconsin School for the Deaf, 309 W. Walworth St.	Delavan

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin