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Tour of Racine

Tour Map 5
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  1. Johnson Wax
    1525 Howe Street
    DCP_0468.JPG (240330 bytes)    DCP_0469.JPG (192382 bytes)The Golden Rondelle. Built in 1964 for the New York World's Fair. 
    S. C. Johnson, Co Administration Building and Research Tower. These  have received world-wide recognition as outstanding works by Frank Lloyd Wright. Tours are available.
    260-2154

  2. The Junction
    1200-1800 Washington Avenue
    Also known as Uptown, this business and industrial area was formerly the junction of two railroads. Washington Avenue was a plank road built in 1848 and tolls were charged. The area was the site of many county estates with large grounds.
  3. Junction Branch Racine Public Library
     1407 South Memorial Drive
    On a balmy Memorial Day in 1914, the Racine Junction Advancement Association dedicated a branch library at Washington and Hamilton near the Racine Junction, financed by a Carnegie grant of $10,000. The Junction Branch (later called South Branch, and then Uptown Branch) was designed by the local architectural firm of Guilbert and Funston. One of the few public buildings in Racine constructed in the Prairie style, so indigenous to the Middle West, it served as a branch library for 74 years. Although it is now privately owned, the building still stands, in Uptown, at Washington Avenue and South Memorial Drive. Racine was one of only a few communities in the United States (58 out of some 1,420) to receive a Carnegie grant for more than one library building.
  4. The Uptown Theater
    1430 Washington Avenue
    The Uptown Theater, formerly known as the Majestic, was placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1982. Origionaly opened on May 2, 1928 with a total of 1800 seats as both a "Movie Palace" and a theater used to stage plays and musicals. The Uptown has laid dormant for the last 40 years. The theatre is currently being restored by the Uptown Theatre Group, Inc. Tours are available. Each Hallowe'en season, the group opens up "The Haunted Theater" with ghostly tours of the historic theater.
  5. The Kearny Home
    2219 Washington Avenue
    The Parish House of Our Savior's Lutheran Church. Formerly one of the country estates, it was built for Mary and George Murray in 1874 and is now known as the Kearny home.
  6. West Racine
    2700-5000 Washington Avenue
    DCP_0474.JPG (247699 bytes)    This area is sometimes called "Kringleville" (Kringle is a delectable Danish pastry containing a fruit or nut filling.) West Racine is known a "Little Denmark," and this business district is the heart of the Danish community.



  7. Cannon at the Entrance of Washington Park
    3000 Washington Avenue
    DCP_0472.JPG (361469 bytes)    This French artillery piece is from World War I.




  8. Mound Cemetery
    1147 West Boulevard
    1851 - Thirty acres of land was purchased for Mound Cemetery, a city-owned cemetery which was named for the twelve Indian burial mounds within it. There are three revolutionary war soldiers buried here. Tours are available by appointment
  9. Washington Park Golf Course 
    2801 - 12th Street
    This park and others in Racine were laid out by Jens Jensen, famous landscape architect. 
    It is Public 9-hole Bent grass course with water in play. Built in 1920. Weekday green fees for non-residents are $7.50 for 9 holes during peak season. Weekend green fees for non-residents are $7.50 for 9 holes during peak season.
    635-0118
  10. Root River
    The Root River flows through the city to Lake Michigan. The name "Racine" is the French word for root. The park system continues through Washington Park, then Horlick (Island) Park north of the West Sixth Street Bridge.
  11. Luther Hill
    2000 West Sixth Street
    Site of Holy Communion Lutheran Church and the Parish House, it was originally Luther College built in 1901 for the Danish children of high-school age.

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