Max Meier's Hartland Inn
Location & Map
Address Details
- Full Address
- 110 Cottonwood Ave, Hartland, WI 53029, United States
- City
- Hartland
- County
- Waukesha County
- State / Province
- Wisconsin
- Postal Code
- 53029
- Country
- United States
- Coordinates
- 43.10416, -88.34745
Contact & Links
The Haunting
Max Meier's Hartland Inn, now reopened as The Inn in Hartland, is a 1912 former hotel building turned long-running restaurant. Its ghost stories mention apparitions, voices, footsteps, and child-spirit reports layered onto the old lodging-and-supper-club history.
Wisconsin Historical Society records list the 110 Cottonwood Avenue building as a 1912 Commercial Hotel/Hartland Inn property. Margrit and Max Meier purchased it in 1967 and made it a Swiss-influenced Wisconsin dining landmark; after a 2019 fire and sale, the building reopened as The Inn.
Reported activity: The haunted account is broad rather than deeply sourced, with apparition and voice motifs. The stronger factual update is status: this is no longer simply Max Meier's old Hartland Inn, but an active reopened restaurant in a historic hotel building.
Activity Details
Activity Level
Reported Activity
What People Are Saying
Summary of visitor and community commentary
The haunted account is broad rather than deeply sourced, with apparition and voice motifs. The stronger factual update is status: this is no longer simply Max Meier's old Hartland Inn, but an active reopened restaurant in a historic hotel building.