Mary Nohl Home and Sculpture Garden, Wisconsin

An elaborate sculpture garden made by the owner and occupant, Mary Nohl, over a period from the 1940s until she died in 2001. She made hundreds of sculptures, from large figurative works outside, to smaller objects housed indoors. The result is one of the densest “visionary art environments” in a region – Wisconsin- that seems to have more than the usual amount of them. The site was given to the Kohler Foundation for preservation, and is owned by the Kohler Arts Center, in Sheboygan. Located in a dense and affluent shoreline residential area north of Milwaukee, attempts to open it to the public have met with local resistance, and the site is still closed to visitation.