Building date: 1846
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°47'07.63"N 88°24'17.17"W. Current owner of record, Kinove LLC as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
City of East Troy and Walworth County Maps.
Editor's Note: The GIS property address is 2088 Church St., East Troy.
"Buena Vista House," originally a hotel, is located at 2090 North Church St., East Troy. It took three years to build and was completed in 1846 and designed by Samuel R. Bradley, a young mason who ran a hotel in Milwaukee with his wife before moving to East Troy. It was placed on the National Register in 1978 and the Wisconsin State Historical Register in 1989. It is the largest known cobblestone building in Wisconsin. Like most cobblestone buildings, this one is a vernacular interpretation of the Greek Revival style, with a broad cornice, granite and limestone quoins, and flat-arched limestone lintels. Originally, a one-story porch ran along the west (front) and wrapped around to the north side, but all that remains today are two smaller, pedimented porch roofs, supported by large brackets, on the front. The paired windows on the second floor, over the main entrance, show where a doorway once opened onto a covered balcony. The ground level has always housed a restaurant, but the interior has been altered repeatedly. Richard Palmer blog.
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East Troy News, issue and date unknown.
Historic East Troy Squares Cobblestone Inn in jeopardy multiple building violations by Stephanie Jones, Lake Geneva Regional News 12/3/2020.
Cobblestone Buildings in Wisconsin, Walworth #26
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, The Cobblestone Inn
- Pages 220 - 221
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¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer blog. Attribution not provided.
