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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 County Historical Society, then outgrowing its existing space in the county courthouse, [12] held a campaign in 1960 to gain funding to buy the building. [13] The Racine County Museum opened May 18, 1962. The museum remained a separate entity from the Historical Society, with which it shared the building, until they merged in 1982. [3]
Racine County (/ r ə ˈ s iː n, r eɪ-/ ⓘ rə-SEEN, ray-) is a county in southeastern Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census , its population was 197,727, [ 1 ] making it Wisconsin's fifth-most populous county.
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Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Racine County, Wisconsin" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Samuel E. Dimmick Mansion was built at the corner of Court and 9th streets, Honesdale, in 1869. In 1920, the Wayne County Memorial Hospital started there, and it was purchased in 1952 for the ...
Finally, in 2021, the Delaware County Justice and Rehabilitation Center opened in the renovated Wilson Middle School building near Middletown Park. Circuit court cases are now all heard at the ...