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Racine Public Library enhances its community's quality of life by providing information, ideas, and creative works. [4] [5] [6]Racine Heritage Museum is dedicated to preserving the material culture and telling the special stories of the people of Racine County; their achievements, diversity, inventive genius, productivity, craftsmanship and entrepreneurial spirit.
Memorial Hall is a convention and meeting hall built in 1924–25 in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. [1] It is operated by the Racine Civic Center. [2] It was given to the city as a gift by William Horlick, the original patent holder of malted milk. [3] The hall has played host to Barack Obama, John McCain, and others. [4] [5]
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 Racine Heritage Museum is a historical museum building and former Carnegie library, located at 701 S. Main St. in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. Designed by John Mauran in the Beaux-Arts style, [ 1 ] the building served as the Racine Public Library from 1904 until 1958, and has housed the Racine Heritage Museum since 1963. [ 2 ]
The Durand and Hill Block at 246 Main St. was built around 1849. It was designed by Lucas Bradley, Racine's first architect, and may have originally been Greek Revival-styled. But it was damaged in the fire of 1882 and probably restyled as then-modern Italianate when it was repaired.
Racine's old downtown, including the 1849 Italianate Durand and Hill Block, the 1857 Italian Renaissance Revival McClurg building, the 1880 Werner saloon and tailor shop, the 1891 Queen Anne-styled Mrvicka/Pabst saloon, the 1907 Engine House No 5, the 1915 Prairie Style YMCA, the 1919 Neoclassical Manufacturer's National Bank, the 1924 Chicago ...
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In 2000, the museum expanded into downtown Racine by moving into an historic building donated by the M&I Bank of Racine. The renovation of the 1874 bank building, which was designed by Brininstool & Lynch of Chicago, involved the installation of a translucent acrylic shell around the upper two floors of the existing limestone building.