Freeman and Jesse Thorp House and Cottages | |
Location | 4135 Bluff St. Fish Creek, Wisconsin |
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Coordinates | 45°07′35″N 87°14′41″W / 45.12631°N 87.2446°W |
NRHP reference No. | 97000887 |
Added to NRHP | August 15, 1997 |
The Freeman and Jesse Thorp House and Cottages are located in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, United States. In 1997 the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
The house was built by Freeman Thorp, nephew of Fish Creek founder Asa Thorp. [2] Upon Freeman's death in a shipwreck, his widow, Jesse, opened the house to lodgers as a way to make money. After closing its doors in the 1960s, the site was renovated in 1986 and was re-opened as a bed and breakfast. LaVyrle Spencer was inspired to writer her best-selling novel Bitter Sweet, centered on an innkeeper in Door County, Wisconsin, after staying at the bed and breakfast during its re-opening week in 1986.