• The Dousman House was originally on the corner of Bluemound Road and Watertown Plank Road.
• The house was built in 1843.
• In 1857 it was sold to neighbor Daniel Brown.
• Farmers, peddlers, soldiers, politicians, and pioneers came to the inn.
• Meals cost a little over a dollar and whiskey, being a medical necessity, was $0.03 a glass, staying overnight was $1.75, and keeping horses was $0.50.
• By 1873, it was sold to Frederick Zimdars.
• Charles Dunkel purchased the farm in 1884.
• John Behling sold his corner lot to North Shore Savings and Loan Association in 1980.
• Behling placed the house on the national register of historic places and offered it to Fledgling Elmbrook Historical Society for preservation.
• The society in 1981 built a bridge across the Dousman Ditch and moved the inn down Pilgrim Parkway (where it is located today)
• William Donaldson House - Visitor Center Inn Site
• The house originally stood at 2350 North Barker Road
• It consisted of three rooms, a loft, and two adjoining frame bedrooms, a kitchen was added later
• When sold, John Ihn donated the house to the Elmbrook Historical Society
• After the two later bedrooms were removed, the house was transported to the Dousman Inn site on May 12, 1983
• ​The Smokehouse on the Dousman Stagecoach Inn Site
• After Henry Reinders bought a dairy farm on the corner of Calhoun and Bluemound road, he added a round smokehouse of local fieldstones
• This building was used until the end of WWII
• The smokehouse originally at 70 North Calhoun Road, but was moved in the 1980’s to avoid demolition