The Sherman Avenue Historic District is a historic neighborhood along Lake Mendota on the east end of the isthmus in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, consisting mostly of middle class houses built from the mid 1890s to the late 1920s.

[1] The area along Sherman Avenue was part of James Doty's original 1836 plat of Madison, but because much of the area was marshy, it developed later than other parts of Madison like the busy town center around the capitol.

When not a muddy mess, Sherman Avenue became a popular route for outings east along Lake Mendota to the brewery and to the scenic area that would become Maple Bluff.

The area attracted a variety of residents, but the bigger homes tended to be for businessmen from downtown more than professionals.

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