Part of the original city plat for Lake Geneva, it was first home to early settlers before the town became known as a retreat for wealthy Chicagoans.

The Maple Park Historic District in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin includes parts of the original plat of the settlement in 1837.

Following the Civil War, Lake Geneva became known as a summer retreat for wealthy citizens from hot Chicago, and during this boom stately houses were built in the Maple Park neighborhood.

During the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the Maple Park vicinity became home to some of the city's finest high-style houses.

The Lake Geneva Library was designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954.