The Dousman Inn was built in 1843 on the Watertown Plank Road as a stagecoach inn by Michael Dousman, a fur trader and entrepreneur from Mackinac, Michigan, with help from his son, Talbot Dousman. Michael Dousman operated it as an inn from 1843 until his death in 1854. His heirs sold the inn and farm to a neighbor, Daniel Brown, a Connecticut Yankee, who ran the inn from 1857 to 1872. In 1873, Fredrick Zimdars, a farmer, bought the property and later sold it to Charles Dunkel, whose descendants owned it from 1887 to 1977, when John Behling, a grandson, gave it to the City of Brookfield. After its acquisition, it was moved to this site, still part of the original tract of land owned by Michael Dousman. Its Greek Revival architecture placed it on the Historic American Buildings Survey, and John Behling had it placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has been fully restored and furnished as a stagecoach inn, and it is operated as a museum and maintained by volunteers from the Elmbrook Historical Society.