Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1874 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Fisk Holbrook Day House, also known as Sunnyhill Home, is a historic house at 8000 West Milwaukee Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Built in 1874, it was the home of Doctor Fisk Holbrook Day (1826-1903), a prominent local physician and amateur geologist.”
Wikipedia article Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1874, Italianate architecture, by James Douglas · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Day, Dr. Fisk Holbrook, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8000 W. Milwaukee Ave., Wauwatosa, 53213
When was it listed? September 1997
Category. building
City. Wauwatosa city
When was it built? 1874
Architectural style. Italianate architecture, Gothic Revival, Second Empire style
Architect. James Douglas
National Register reference number. 97001268 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

40 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1778249
26 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2002767
7 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1767699
25 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2005040
12 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1806123
11 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1806080
11 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1806070
1 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1803975

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Own Crews	Stone	Unknown
	Own Crews	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this property

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wauwatosa, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1998	Flash Flood	Wauwatosa	1 hurt, $22,140,000	no account filed
September 2006	Flash Flood	Wauwatosa	$100,000	no account filed
September 2000	Flash Flood	Wauwatosa	$100,000	no account filed
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wauwatosa	$50,000	A trained spotter reported numerous trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 70 mph (61 knots) along a path from 2 miles west of Wauwatosa to just east of Cudahy. A downed power line sparked a house fire 3 miles southwest of downtown Milwaukee.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wauwatosa	$30,000	A swath of significant tree damage. Approximately 80 trees damaged or downed.
April 2026	Flash Flood	Wauwatosa	$25,000	Social media pictures and videos of cars stuck in flooded roads in downtown Milwaukee. DOT cameras show a few locations with cars stuck in water at highway underpasses.
June 2001	Lightning	Wauwatosa	$25,000	no account filed
June 2008	Lightning	Wauwatosa	$20,000	Lightning struck a home and started a fire that damage the roof.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Wauwatosa	$10,000	A large tree uprooted and fallen onto car.
August 2002	Flash Flood	Wauwatosa	$10,000	no account filed
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wauwatosa	-	Public estimates winds at 60-65 MPH.
May 2014	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	The large hail resulted in broken windows, dented vehicles, and extensive damage to trees and shrubs.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wauwatosa	-	Strong winds with an intensifying storm over Milwaukee County.
June 2014	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	Estimated 55 mph winds with the nickel size hail. Small tree limbs down and some street flooding due to 0.75 to 1.00 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wauwatosa	-	Large trees were either uprooted or split by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wauwatosa	-	Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wauwatosa	-	Widespread large trees down. Measured peak gust on UW-Milwaukee campus.
April 2020	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
April 1999	Flood	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Wauwatosa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Sunnyhill Home	under 500 feet	1980
Thomas B. Hart House	0.2 miles	1985
Church Street Historic District	0.2 miles	1989
Pearl C. Norton House	0.3 miles	1985
Wauwatosa Woman's Club Clubhouse	0.3 miles	1998
Lowell Damon House	0.3 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001268 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Milwaukee County	All 300 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.