The Audubon Inn

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The Audubon Inn, formerly The Beaumont Hotel, is the best example of a Queen Anne commercial block in Mayville. It is a three-story brick building decorated with elaborate pressed metal cornices and bays. At the corner of the building is a polygonal domed turret that rises from a corner bay.

 The hotel was constructed in 1896 by Jacob Mueller, editor of the Dodge County Pioneer, one of the important German language newspapers for southeastern Wisconsin. The Beaumont becoame a showplace of the area and remained a hotel (with a restaurant and saloon on the first floor, along with other retail businesses),until the post-World War II era. Like many small town hotels, it declined in the 1960's and 1970's,eventually becoming an apartment building and rooming house.

 In the late 1980's, the hotel was extensively renovated, including the return of the handsome turret on the exterior and declared a National Historic Landmark.Each of the sixteen spacious rooms are appointed in Shaker Country style, with queen sized four poster-beds, cable television, and inviting double whirlpool baths.

The Audubon Inn was selected as one of the top 54 great inns in the United States by National Geographic Traveler Magazine and has recieved attentions in several other publications as an exquisite place to visit. Midwest Living Magazine stated,"In tidy Mayville, the elegant 1897 Audubon Inn makes a perfect overnight and dinner stop." Our restaurant has been rated in the Top 101 Restaurants in Wisconsin by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal.Our bar has been hailed as one of the most beautiful in Wisconsin which boasts stained glass windows, spacious seating, and an etched glass skylight depicting the annual migration of Canada Geese through the Horicon Marsh.