Walking tours of Waukesha
Queen Anne is the label the register puts on more Waukesha buildings than any other, 12 of them. Houses make up the largest group by what the buildings were for.
3 themed routes run through those listings. Of the routes below, one follows a single style, one follows one kind of building and one follows a single decade. A subject becomes a route only where the register holds enough of it close enough together to walk.
Every listing in Waukesha → · 70 in all
The routes
- StyleQueen Anne houses in Waukesha10 stops · 2.2 miles · stops last changed Oct 1, 2026Queen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches. The Waukesha examples on this route went up between 1881 and 1897.
- Building typeHouses and mansions in Waukesha15 stops · 1.8 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026The route links houses built between 1841 and 1901. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk.
- Decade builtWaukesha in the 1890s10 stops · 2.1 miles · stops last changed Oct 1, 2026Every stop carries a construction date in the 1890s. Queen Anne style is the style recorded on more of them than any other.
Every route holds at least ten stops and stays under two and a half miles. Routes are computed from the coordinates in the National Park Service National Register spatial data or, where it has no point, Wikidata, and the distances are straight lines between stops. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
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Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Wisconsin
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