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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 ...
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.
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]
The Milwaukee Falls Lime Company incorporated in 1890, and assumed and expanded operations at the Grafton quarry that had begun in 1845. Between 1890 and 1893, the company constructed five wood-burning lime kilns near the quarry to produce quicklime from the dolomite of the Racine formation found just beneath the top soil along the west bank of the Milwaukee River.
The clay bluffs on Lake Michigan and the Port Washington Breakwater Light seen from Lion's Den Gorge park in the Town of Grafton.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 21.4 square miles (55 km 2), of which, 19.8 square miles (51 km 2) of it is land and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2) of it (7.47%) is water.
The Hearthstone Historic House Museum is a historic home in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States that has been converted into a museum. On September 30, 1882, it became the first residence in the US powered by a centrally located hydroelectric station using the Edison system.
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.
The Christina Kuhl House, also known as the Kuhl-Gurath House, is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] In its NRHP nomination, it was described as "a massive French Second Empire house of frame construction with a red brick veneer." Its mansard roof is covered ...