PRESERVATION - RACINE, INC. NEWSLETTER

SUMMER 1986

125 Years Ago Where Was Camp Utley? In the summer of 1861, during the first weeks of the Civil War, a camp was established in Racine where the Fourth Regiment mustered before it left the state for Baltimore and nearly five years of active service in the Union Army. This place of rendezvous was named "Camp Utley" in honor of William L. Utley, the state senator from Racine who was then acting as Adjutant General for Wisconsin and later became the commanding officer of the Twenty-Second Wisconsin Regiment. According to Eugene W. Leach, Racine's most accomplished early historian, the camp was located "south of the city on the lake shore, on the farm of Truman G. Wright, and occupied 75+ acres, extending south from Sixteenth street to the grounds of Racine —then a little south of the present location of DeKoven avenue—and reaching back one-fourth mile or more west from the lake." His situation of the camp is roughly correct, but it is misleading. "In attempting to visualize the site of Camp Utley in I86I," Leach cautioned his readers, "it should be remembered that the bank of the lake was then 800 to 1,000 feet east of where it is now." He thought that half or more of the land which was a part of the camp had been washed away by the lake. That is not so. For the site of the camp Leach relied solely, it seems, on an account printed on June 12, 186 1, in the Racine Weekly Advocate which described the grounds as "those adjacent to the college, on the farm of T. G. Wright, Esq. They are finely located on the bank of , at an elevation of forty or fifty feet and comprise some 75 acres." Leach evidently interpreted "on the bank of Lake Michigan" to mean "on the shoreline." He apparently did not see another account printed the same day in the Weekly Journal which commended "the attractive grounds of Truman G. Wright, Esq. . . •- comprising some forty acres of prairie, almost immediately on the bank of Lake Michigan." While the two reports agree on whose land was used, they differ widely on their estimates of the acreage and they disagree precisely as to whether the camp was "on the bank" or "almost immediately on the bank" of the lake. Other descriptions—to be found in letters written from Camp Utley by soldiers sojourning there—are equally divided. "Our camp is situated immediately on the Lake shore,"' wrote one. Another placed it "on the fair ground near the lake." A third referred to "the lake lying to the east of the camp"; a fourth set it "on the shore of the Lake and in the center of a large grove"; and yet another wrote: "Camp Utley is very pleasantly located almost within a stone's throw of Lake Michigan." The more precise references to the camp indicate that it did not extend to the shoreline of the lake, and the legal descriptions of the lands on which it stood bear that out. In 1861 the farm on which Camp Utley was established was only nominally the land of Truman Wright. Legally, title to the farm was still held by the estate of his brother. 2 WHERE WAS CAMP UTLEY?

Charles S. Wright, who had died in 1855. At one time Charles owned all the land from the lake west to the tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and north from Twenty-First Street to the north line of Section 21 in the Town of Mount Pleasant. (The north line of the section lies approximately one half block south of Sixteenth Street.) In 1850 Charles platted all of his land lying along the lake east of Main Street as a subdivision called "South Racine" and sold almost all of the lots. Not long after, the bluffs along the lake began to erode seriously. Some of the lots slid down to the shoreline and disappeared. Few of them ever had houses built on them; so Wright's view of the lake remained unimpaired. In 1852 Charles donated ten acres in the southeast corner of his remaining land to the Episcopal Diocese of Wisconsin as a site for Racine College. In 1861, therefore, the college comprised only a bit more than a quarter of the lands which the DeKoven Founda­ tion occupies today. They extended only about half way to DeKoven Avenue north from Twenty-First and half way to Grand Avenue west from South Wisconsin (formerly South Main Street). Thus, the "farm of T, G. Wright, Esq." on which Camp Utley stood included nearly two hundred acres and was bounded on the north by the section line, on the east by Main Street, on the west by the railroad, and on the south by the grounds of Racine College and the present line of Twenty-First Street. The lands immediately along the lake were no longer a part of it.

This map is a combination —put together by Don Rintz—of two maps of Racine which date from the late 1850s. The style: "Camp Utley, Racine, Wis." and the illustration of "Badger Boys On the road to Dixie's land," which appears at the address block of this newsletter, come from the letterheads of stationery which could be bought in 186 1 at the shop of S. B. Steers, Bookseller, Titus' Block.

It is possible, therefore, to establish clearly two of the boundary lines of the camp: they were the northerly and easterly boundaries of the Wright farm. On the north, Wisconsin, Pearl (College), Chippeway (Park), Villa, Campbell (Grand), Center, and Racine—the only streets which ran to the city limits at that time—all ended at the fence of the farm. "Where the main entrance to the camp will be we know not," wrote the Advocate; "at present a gate at the termination of Wisconsin street opens into the grounds." That gate would have blocked the way where the house at 1632 South Wisconsin now stands. On the east, a fence ran along the west side of Main Street to the grounds of the college. Within the fence was a private race track which became the parade ground for the camp. The tents for the recruits were "placed in military order," according to the Advocate, "on a ridge parallel with Main street, on the west side of what was the race course." Continued on page four. 827 Lake Avenue

The house at 827 Lake Avenue is an architectural gem, in spite of the asphalt siding and the removal of an elegant porch: on that Susan Carr, Russell Zimmerman, and Johnson, Johnson and Roy, all architectural historians, agree. It is the only remaining example of the French Second Empire Style in Racine, with its concave mansard roof and dormers. In its early, more elegant years the house was on a much larger lot extending to the lake, and its outbuild­ ings were as interesting as the house itself. There was a scroll-cut ginger­ bread summerhouse and an octagonal, board-and-batten barn with a louvered Among the boarders, briefly, were Mr. cupola. and Mrs. Joseph Hecht and their twelve In addition to its architectural value, year old son Ben who became a well-known the house has historic interest because playwright. The Hechts later moved to a of its early occupants, who included house now demolished in the 900 block of several industrialists; Dan Castello, a Lake Avenue. Ben Hecht and Dan's son nationally known circus man; and Ben Harry practiced circus stunts in the old Hecht, noted playwright. The house was barn, and one report says that they built in 1867 for William Dingee who spent at least one summer with a small established the Geiger Threshing Machine traveling circus in Wisconsin. Ben Company in competition with the J. I. dropped out of the University of Wiscon­ Case Threshing Machine Company. After sin at Madison shortly after entering the Case Company bought him out, he and went to Chicago as a newspaper worked for a number of years for his reporter where "he became in a few years former competitor. the youngest participant in the cele­ brated Chicago renaissance of literature The next resident and owner was the rubbing shoulders and swapping stories colorful circus celebrity, Dan Castello, with such luminaries as Sherwood Ander­ who practiced his tumbling and acrobatic son, Carl Sandburg, H. L. Mencken" (and stunts in the octagonal barn. His others), according to a brochure pub­ circus career included a partnership lished by the Newberry Library of with P. T. Barnum, performances before Chicago. Hecht's best known work was Queen Victoria, and a tour on the Great The Front Page. His later works Lakes on a 160 foot wooden boat. His included fiction, plays, autobiography, show featured his wife as an equestri­ and essays, and he won six nominations enne and his son as an acrobat. Racine and two Oscars for his screen plays. might have become the circus winter quarters if Mrs. Castello had not been After Mrs. Castello left the house, the so fond of this home on the lake that next resident was Wakely Bull, a Case she refused to move to another site in Company executive and a brother of Racine which had been selected for that Stephen Bull. He was followed by Harry purpose. The circus then found winter McLaren, president of Mitchell Motors quarters in Baraboo. Dan Castello died and the Racine Rubber Company. The in 1906 after losing all his money when house was turned into apartments after a New York opera house in which he had several periods of vacancy, and in 1950 invested burned down before it could be Konstant Gosieski and his wife, owners opened. His wife then kept 827 Lake of the Gosieski Music Store bought the Avenue as a boarding house, catering property. It is now in her estate. largely to circus people. Dorothy Osborne 4 WHERE WAS CAMP UTLEY? continued

The southerly boundary cannot be defined so precisely. Certainly, the camp did not intrude upon the college grounds, but it may have skirted them on the north and the west. The Advocate reported that the camp would "embrace the high land back of the college"; and it later declared that "the officers' tents in the edge of the grove, at the southern extremity of the race grounds, will command a view of the whole encampment"; but no more definite evidence is available. The western boundary is even more nebulous, except for the fact that the Blue River then flowed in a thin stream where Howe Street is today. It seems unlikely that the camp straddled the river and the low, marshy land around it. However, the camp probably did not extend that far west. If it comprised 75 acres, the approximate western boundary would have been at Center Street; if it used only forty acres, more likely. Villa. Camp Utley served as the place of rendezvous for five Wisconsin regiments—the Fourth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Second, Thirty-First, and Thirty-Third. It was the camp of instruc­ tion for ten of Wisconsin's thirteen batteries of light artillery, and during the last year of the war, it was used by the Seventh Wisconsin—part of the "Iron Brigade"—and the Thirteenth Wisconsin Regiments. "Here they are to rest for a time," the Advocate explained, "from the march, and away from the sound of battle, recruit their decimated ranks, and prepare to again take their place where 'the front of battle lowers.'" Since Camp Utley encompassed only lands west of Main Street and none along the shoreline of Lake Michigan, almost all the ground on which it stood still exists today. Only that - portion south of Sixteenth Street and north of Eighteenth—where Main Street has fallen away—has disappeared. The land, of course, has changed beyond the capacity of our present imaginations to reconstruct it. We can only rely for a visualization of the camp on the observation of a contemporary reporter for the Milwaukee Sent inel, who saw the camp and wrote: "The site is all that a painter's eye could desire. The blue lake, dotted with its numerous canvas, fringed with the greenest of God's carpets and lifting from its heaving bosom, each morn, the God of Day, washes its eastern bounds, while on the south a pleasant grove from whose refreshing shade, each morn, noon and eve, the college bell sends forth its merry peals. On the west is the almost boundless prairie with its flocks and herds, and in the distance may be seen the iron horse hurrying to bring his rider home. Now to the north is spread out in fair proportions the beautiful city, with its many spires and chapels, with its pretty cottages and elegant villas, and last, but not least, its blooming girls. This is the painter's camp boundaries. The camp is covered with clean tents and dirty soldiers." Don Rintz Where Is It? I •••llllHllils^issaaKmiTiSsKSiS III ' ^^r^^

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Have your editors recently been touring Europe or are these "castles" in Racine? See page eleven for answer. Quilt Raffle

A special feature of our Tour of His­ toric Places this year will be a raffle. First prize is a handmade quilt in shades of blue and rose, 88" x 108", made by our members. The second prize is a 5" Quasar portable T.V. that we were able to purchase from Novak Appli­ ance at cost. The third prize is a $100.00 gift certificate, generously donated by Hans Hansen Importers. Maresh-Meredith Funeral Home very kindly paid for the printing of 5000 tickets for us, and our goal is to sell all of them. If each of us sells tickets, this could be a relatively easy way to gener­ ate several thousand dollars. If you have not received your tickets to sell, please call Jean Singer (634-7690) or me, Kathy Rouse (639-1484).

Many members have asked how the quilt idea came about. Several years ago I thought making a quilt to raffle would be an appropriate fundraising project. After our Preservation Week Quilt Show in May of 1984, several of our members took a quiltmaking class. After that I Joy Botts, Gladys McGilsky, Dorothy knew we had enough people to undertake Osborne, Mary Ann Staupe, and Barbara such a project. Walter to applique the quilt. The pattern, "Molly's Pitcher," was After all of the pieces were cut, we found in Quilter's Newsletter. Since basted them onto the blocks and took the plan was for a quilt sixty inches them home to applique by hand. When square, I redesigned the size to fit a the finished blocks were returned to me double or queen size bed. in December, I put the whole top toget­ her and took it to First Evangelical Carolyn Chaplin and I labored over the Sewing Circle to be quilted. fabric and color choices and, believe it or not, this is the most difficult As time drew nearer to their quilt show, part of making a quilt. In addition Carolyn Chaplin, Gladys McGilsky, and I we enlisted the help of Carol Anderson, also helped out with the quilting and finishing so it would be completed in time to display it at the First Evan­ gelical Quilt Show on April 25th and 26th. Flowers & Company, one of our ticket U^'^^^'^'^'^Ul outlets, displayed the quilt in their CAROL fiwoeRsoh window during National Preservation I KBTHRVfl ROUSe Week and Stretch & Sew, another.ticket (CAROLYN CHflPLIM nnoRGefteT BOTTS outlet, will display it in June. I OOftOTHV osBORwe would like to thank them as well as our mftftYRwsTWPe other outlets. The Studio and all four aflDYS mCGJLSKY Piggly Wiggly Stores. With the help of all of our members we ouiLTeo BY riRST evftn.s€UJiti6CiRae know that this project will be a *. success. Kathy Rouse Cupolas, Belvederes, and Widows Walks

Architectural terms are often confusing, and in fact, architects and architectural historians do not always agree on some definitions. Terms frequently confused are those in the heading of this article. A book on architectural styles published by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Division says that cupola and belvedere may be used interchangeably; but a belve­ dere is defined in Webster's New World Diet ionary as a "summerhouse on a height, or an open, roofed gallery in an upper story, built for giving a view of the scenery," and a cupola is defined as a "small dome or similar structure on a roof." It appears then that whichever term you wish to apply to the fine structures on the roofs of Racine's Italianate houses you will have authority for the usage. The cupola or belvedere is one of the characteristics of the Italianate Style: the finest in Racine being on the Murphy house at 1144 South Main Street, the Masonic Temple at 1012 South Main Street, the Sydnor house at 23 10 Westwood Drive, and the Wustum Museum on Northwestern Avenue. Webster defines a widow's walk as "a platform with a rail around it on a roof, on some New England homes, usually for observing ships at sea." Cupolas (not belvederes) on working barns serve a very practical purpose although they often have elaborate detail and harmonious design. The louvered sides and open bottom provide a natural passage to the open air for barn odors and the heat and humidity of the haymow. A cupola is also a term used for a structure in an iron foundry. Fake cupolas are frequently placed on modern garage roofs for their decorative value, but they serve no practical pur­ pose . :'-..' Strictly garden structures are gazebos, strombellas (a very small gazebo), arbors, and pergolas, not to mention a bower. : Dorothy Osborne Top row: West Park Dania Hall 1019 State Street Masonic Temple 1012 South Main Street Middle row: Murphy House 1 144 South Main Street Wustum Museum 25 19 Northwestern Avenue Knight House 1235 South Main Street Bottom row: Sydnor House 2320 Westwood Drive Henrietta Benstead Hall 1 16 Tenth Street Books Purchased Johnson and Wright

Preservat ion-Racine's donat ion of $ 100 The Johnson Wax Administration Building to the Racine Public Library has been and Research Tower are the theme of an used to purchase the following books: exhibition that has opened in Washing­ ton, D.C. The exhibition, titled Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax from Sears, Roebuck and Company, Buildings: Creating a Corporate Cathe­ by Katherine Cole Stevenson and dral," features 25 of Wright's original H. Ward Jandl. drawings, the majority from his unpub­ lished Taliesin West archives, as well Respectful Rehabi1itation: Answers as lithographs, models, original furni­ to Your Questions About Old Buildings, ture, historic photos and murals, Technical Preservation Services, U. S. vidoetapes of Wright discussing his Department of the Interior. work and correspondence with Herbert F. Conserve Neighbothoods Notebook, Johnson. National Trust publication. The exhibition celebrates the Johnson American Bungalow: 1880 to 1930, Wax centennial and the 50th Anniversary by Clay Lancaster. of Wright's design of the Administra­ tion Building. It will tour through Victorious Victorians: A^ Guide to 1988, opening at the Milwaukee Art the Major Architectural Styles, Museum on December 5, 1986. by Peg Sinclair and Taylor Lewis. Jill Hartmann reports that these books Much of the architectural research was will soon be on the shelves for circula­ done by Jonathan Lipman, a Cornell tion. graduate and the exhibit's guest cura­ tor. Lipman has written an accompany­ ing book, "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings," published by Rizzoli International. The book sells Our New Officers for $19.95 in soft cover and $35.00 in hard cover. It is available at Martha Contrary to the rule that more is not Merrell's Bookstore, 312 Sixth Street. necessarily better, the fact that last year's officers have agreed to give more is definitely better, and good for Coming Up Preservation-Racine. We are delighted Starving Artists Fair to announce the re-election of Rod Botts August 3 as President; Carol Kreuser, Vice Presi­ dent; Mary Whitman, Secretary; and Jean Preservation-Racine's Eleventh Annual Singer, Treasurer for the coming year. Tour of Historic Places They will appreciate the co-operation September 28 and assistance of every member of the organization. Preservat ion-Racine, Inc. Newsletter Editors Dorothy Osborne Don Rintz, Roberta Fiene New Members James and Jean Abegglen 1928 Chatham St. 02 Dick and Phyllis Creuziger Kathy Laru Architectural Illustrations 1226 Grove Ave. 05 711 61st St. 3409 Kensington Square Rd. John and Donna Floyd Kenosha, WI 53140 Sturtevant, WI 53177 1613 Orchard St. 05 Mr. and Mrs. Larry Vaile Donald Boehme Doris and Elroy Hammes 1808 Holmes Ave. 03 1501 Park Ave. 03 2824 Dwight St. 03 James and Colleen Van Hoven Deborah T. Call Kathleen Krenek 30 Stonewood Ct. 02 672 1 Greenridge Dr. 06 1130 S. Main St. #207 03 Russ Wort ley John and Rita Connelly Mike and Michelle Burrows 3731 N. Wisconsin St. 02 3724 Lindermann Ave. 05 1843 S. Wisconsin Ave. 03 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES, RACINE COUNTY ?•

1. Hazelo, Franklyn, House (1858) 34108 Oak Knoll Rd. 2. Collins, John, House C!850s) T4N R22E, Sec. 15 3. Norwegian Buildings at Heg Park T4N R20E, Sec. 18 (Heg Park Rd.) 4. Badger Building (1915-16) 610 Main St- 5. First Presbyterian Church (1851-52) 716 College Ave . 6. Hall, Chauncey, Building (1883) 340 Main St. 7. Hall, Chauncey, House (pre-1854) 1235 S . Main St 8. Hansen House (c. 1855) 122 1 N . Main St 9. Hardy, Thomas P., House (1905) 13 19 S . Main St 10. S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Administra­ tion Bldg. (1936) & Research Tower (1947) 1525 Howe St . 11. Jonas, Karel, House (1878) 1337 N. Erie St. 12. Kaiser's (1928-29) 218 6th St. 13. Cooley, Eli R., House (1851-53) 1135 S. Main St. 14. McClurg Building (1857-58) 245 Main St- 15. Memorial Hall (1924-25) 72 7th St. 16. Murray, George, House (1874) 2219 Washington Ave. 17. Number 4 Engine House (1888) 1339 Lincoln St. 18. Racine College (1852-76) 600 2Ist St. 19. Racine County Courthouse (1930-31) 730 Wisconsin Ave.: 20. Racine Elks Club (1912-13) 60 1 Lake Ave. 21. Racine Harbor Lighthouse & Life Saving Station (I'866) Racine Harbor North Pier 22. Racine Post Office (1930) 603 Main St. 23. Racine Public Library 70 1 S. Main St. 24. Racine Depot 1402 Liberty St. 25. Rickeman Grocery Building (1883) 415 Sixth St.: 26. St. Luke's Episcopal Church/Chapel/ Guildhall and Rectory 614 Main St. 27. St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (1924-25) 1100 Erie St. 28. Shoop Building (1893) 215 State St. 29. Southside Historic District 30. United Laymen Bible Student Tabernacle (1927) 924 Center St. 31. Post Office 603 Main St. 32. Uptown (Majestic) Theater (1927-28) 1426-30 S. Washington 33. YMCA Building (1886) 314-20 6th St. 34. Whitman-Belden House (1847-49) 108 N. State St. 35. Beardsley, Elam, Farmhouse (c. 1855-60) T4N R19E, Sec. 21 J 36. Johnson, Herbert F., House () (1937) 33 E. 4-Mile Rd. 37. Wind Point (Racine Point) Light Stat ion Windridge Dr. at Lake Michigan 38. Sears House (Haven House) 1601 State St.

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1 . 1 135 S . Main St . Amanda Kuehneman 2. Mound Cemetery City of Rac ine 3. 7 16 College Ave . 1 st Presb . Church 4. 1525 Howe St . J ohns on' s Wax 5. 600 2 1st St . DeKoven Foundation 6. 1 144 S. Main St . Richard Murphy 7. 1235 S. Main St. Kathryn Swanstrom -8. Karel Jonas Statue City of Rac ine (High St Douglas) 9. Mary Todd/ City of Rac ine Statue - East Park iO. 245 Main St . Main Place Limited 11. 614 Main St . St. Luke's Episcopal Church 12. 625 College Ave . Unitarian Church 13. 122 1 N. Main St . Patricia Hansen 14. 820 Main St . V.F.W. 15. 4310 Washington Ave. Lester LaMack 16. 2219 Washington Ave. Our Savior Church 17. Monument Square City of Rac ine 18. 1 100 Erie St . St. Patrick's Church 19. 1436 College Ave . Gilbert Thomsen 20. 16 10 College Ave . Mrs. A. DeVere Harnett 21. 1425 N. Wisconsin Unified School District 22. 150 1 Erie St . St. John's Church 23. 1337 Erie St. Terry Vetter 24. 1128 Erie St . Thomas & Shirley Dawkins 25. 2600 W . 6th St . Holy C ommun ion Church 26. 1 1 10 S. Main St . Noel Miller 27. 120 1-03 College Ave . HarryLaufman 28. 1520 College Ave. J ame s D icke rt 29. 16 11 College Ave. Robert & Jill Hartmann 30. 340 Main St . Rhoda Gale Pollack 3 1. 314 6th St . Gates Building Co. 32. 700 6th St. City of Racine (Fire Station) 33. 701 Main St . City of Racine (Racine County Museum) 34. 1202 S. Main St. John J. Hart 35. 1737 Wisconsin S.C. Johns on C o. 36. 1928 Erie St . Ben Patzman 37. 1844 Wisconsin Ave. Gerald Carlson 38. 700 State St. J . I . Cas e f 39. 13 19 Erie St . James M. Berndt ' 40. 12 15 State St . Merchants Delivery 41. 1632 S. Wisconsin Roder ick Bott s 42. 160! State St . Emil Mathis 43. 73 1 Main St. James Tully, Jr. 44. 1300 16th St. Columbus Hardville 45 . 2800 Taylor Ave. Frank Randall '" 46. 1336-38 Mound Ave. Rosie Upchurch 47. 1407 S. Memorial Dr. City of Racine (Uptown Library) 48 . 822 Park Ave. Raymond Cook 49 . 14 12 Racine St. RogerOlshanski ^ 50. 2 18 6th St . , Charles Leischow 51 . 4 15 6th St. William Saunders 52 . 110 1 Douglas Ave. St. Patrick's School Bldg. 53. 1436 Junction Ave. Bernard E. McCallum & Kurt R. Kluender 54. 324 DeKoven Ave, James Haas Historic Tour ti September 28, 1986, marks Preservation- vation-Racine is raffling. I hope that Racine's eleventh annual Tour of His­ all our members will sell tour tickets toric Places. In honor of its 100th and raffle tickets, will volunteer to anniversary, Johnson Wax will open its be tour guides or, better yet, will do administration building at 1525 Howe all three. Street—designed by Frank Lloyd Wright- Mary Ann Staupe as a special bonus to holders of tour Tour Chairman tickets only. Seven other significant sites will also be open: The Shoop Building at 215 State Preservation Week Street—the Richardsonian Roman­ esque building which Johnson Wax The highlight in Racine of National Redevelopment Corporation is adapt­ Preservation Week was the presentation ing for modern offices. of plaques to owners of buildings on the Dick Johnson and Pat Huey's down­ National Register of Historic Places. town apartment and store—Flowers The ceremony was sponsored jointly by and Company at 336 Main Street— Preservation-Racine and the Johnson which have been newly remodeled Foundation. It was held at "The House" and redecorated. with a reception following at Wingspread. The plaques were designed by George Gerald Ptacek's house at 847 Col­ Blaustein and funded by a grant from the lege Avenue—a handsome, cream Racine County Bicentennial Commission. brick Italianate residence. George's plaque was cast at Racine Steve and Kathy Samuelson's home Aluminum and Brass Foundry, Inc. and at 1424 South Main—a 120 year old engraved by First Impressions. house originally built as a Lake Michigan cottage. Four noontime mini-tours were also presented as part of the week's activi­ Debbie and Russ Carlson's home at ties. Sandra Shove was chairman of the 1753 College—a 102 year old house celebration. with its ornate and original plaster moldings. A separate page listing sites of the National Register properties and Local Dave and Julie Madsen's house at Landmarks is included in this issue. 2048 North Wisconsin—one of those cream brick workman's cottages which are unique to Racine. Move It! And finally, St. Rose Catholic Church at 1 100 Grand Avenue— If you are wondering when the Walker whose congregation is also House at 845 Lake Avenue will be moved, celebrating its 100th anniver­ so are we. Each problem has produced sary . a new difficulty with its own delay; but once again, we are hopeful that the Tour hours are noon to six and free move is imminent. We are told by the shuttle buses will operate from site house mover that preparations for the to site as usual. move will begin the first week in June. Refreshments will be served at the By the time you read this, you may see Johnson Wax site. In every way something happening. possible, the people at Johnson Wax are helping us make this tour our The Editors best ever. I am grateful for their support. Answer: The Sunday of the tour will also be Save your airfare, they're right here the day for drawing the winners of the in Racine. L. to R: Engine House No. 1, handmade quilt, the portable tele­ 14 12 Racine Street; Pabst Brewing Com­ vision set, and the $100 gift certifi­ pany Saloon, 1300 16th Street; Zoo cate from Hans Hansen's—which Preser­ Administration Building. Preservation-Racine, Inc. Non-profit Org. P. 0. Box 383 U. S. POSTAGE Racine, Wisconsin 53401 PAID Racine, Wisconsin Permit No. 242

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