Society Hill Historic District is a 137-building district bounded in part by Emmett, Cass, Wisconsin, and MacFarlane streets. Most of its houses were constructed between 1870 and 1910 in the Italianate and Queen Anne architectural styles. It reflects the wealth and prestige of Portage's early prominent families, who lived there because of its convenience to downtown and the railroad. Just south of the large Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad complex, the district also housed many skilled railroad workers. It contains the homes of two Pulitzer Prize winners, Zona Gale and Frederick Jackson Turner, and it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.