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The old commercial downtown, including the 1855 Italianate-styled Wisconsin House Hotel, the 1857 Federal Style Nosen building, the 1891 Queen Anne Bink saloon, the 1907 Richardsonian Romanesque Zimmerman saloon, the 1909 Neoclassical First National Bank, the 1930 Art Deco Schumacher Monument Co., the 1942 Art Moderne Schanen building, and the ...
The Milwaukee Falls Lime Company is the former owner of a limestone quarry and lime kilns located in Grafton, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. [1] The quarry and kilns are now Lime Kiln Park, which also features a pavilion, playground, walking paths, sledding hill, horseshoe pits, and disc golf course.
The Grafton Flour Mill is a former grist mill on the Milwaukee River in Grafton, Wisconsin, United States. The original section was built in 1846 by a group of Yankee farmers as a flour mill and produced flour for many years through a succession of owners. In 1884, the mill caught fire and had to be partially rebuilt.
Grafton is located at (43.317904, −87.954113 According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 5.10 square miles (13.21 km 2), of which 5.06 square miles (13.11 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) is water. [25]
During the Great Depression, the company acquired the neighboring Grafton Flour Mill and converted it to worsted yarn production as well. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, [3] [4] [5] and currently houses shops, offices, and studios. [6] At its height, the Grafton mill employed 100 people. [citation needed]
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The Old Ozaukee County Courthouse in Port Washington, Wisconsin, United States, is a Richardsonian Romanesque-styled building built in 1901 and clad in gray-blue limestone from the nearby Cedarburg quarry.
Lion's Den Gorge Nature Preserve is a 73-acre public park located in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, running adjacent to Lake Michigan for 0.7 miles near the village of Grafton and city of Port Washington.