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The first businesses developed along Main Street south of the river, but in 1848 when the Racine and Rock River Plank Road was built from Monument Square west along Sixth Street and heading out of town to the west, the business district turned west and began to grow along Sixth Street. [2]
Zahn's Building at 500 Monument Square is a 4-story department store designed by Edmund Bailey Funston in Chicago Commercial style with prominent arrays of windows and built in 1924. [ 18 ] [ 2 ] The Paramount Radio Stores Building at 318 Main St. had its facade remodeled in 1929, skinned over with pink glazed terra cotta tiles topped with a ...
Music on the Monument is downtown Racine's summer concert series. Weekly concerts by local bands playing a range of music take place from June through August at downtown's centrally located Monument Square. [55] Music and More Concert Series: Concerts are held at noon on Thursdays during the summer at First Presbyterian Church in downtown ...
Racine (/ r ə ˈ s iː n, r eɪ-/ ⓘ rə-SEEN, ray-) [8] is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River, situated 22 miles (35 km) south of Milwaukee and 60 miles (97 km) north of Chicago. [9]
The present courthouse is the third to serve Racine County. The first, constructed in 1839, was located in the town's market square, today known as Monument Square. [6] Built in a Greek Revival style, [1] [7] the county building was intended to house "a court-house, a jail, and a building for county offices."
4-story office building built in 1858 in Italian Renaissance Revival style for the Racine and Mississippi Railroad. Later housed Racine's first public library, a vaudeville theater, a Turkish bath, and the U.S.'s first vocational school, among other enterprises. 28: Melvin Avenue Residential Historic District: Melvin Avenue Residential Historic ...
The Racine Zoo was founded on March 1, 1923, by local businessman Jacob Stoffel, Jr. ... from 1962 to 1982. The lights were shown in Monument Square until Kiwanis ...
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.National Historic Landmarks are designated by the U.S. National Park Service, which recognizes buildings, structures, districts, objects, and sites which satisfy certain criteria for historic significance.