THE WITCH’S HOUSE

The former home of outsider artist Mary Nohl (who died in 2001) at 7328 N. Beach Dr. is undergoing a restoration that includes a collection of playful and weird concrete sculptures that crouch, slump and sit in the house’s yard. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan once hoped to remake the house into a public museum, but now, after a more than 10-year struggle with neighbors who think the property is an eyesore, the restoration’s main goal “is just to save it,” says exhibitions manager Jo Bjorkman. During Nohl’s lifetime, the menagerie surrounding the structure was in constant flux, so the restorers are attempting “to resurrect and freeze a moment in time, possibly the late 1980s, when she was working there,” says Bjorkman.