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Kenosha, Wisconsin
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kemper Center on the Lake Michigan shore in Kenosha grew around the Durkee Mansion, built in 1861 for the senator Charles Durkee, and in 1865 it became Kemper Hall, an Episcopal girls' school run by the Sisters of St. Mary for 105 years. Local legend says a sister threw herself from the rocks into the lake, and that her body washed up in January 1900, and visitors and staff have told of nuns seen peering from the windows. The center is now a public park and arts campus, and past seasons have included ghost tours. The campus is best known for its lakefront grounds and historic buildings.
The grounds are a public park open daily; tours of the historic buildings and any ghost tours are offered on a limited schedule, so check with Kemper Center.
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