| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office.
BRICK 1ST STORY, 1/2 TIMBERED UPPER STORIES.
South Side Historic District Walking Tour Guide, 1993: Designed by architect J.Mandor Matson who was born in Norway but spent most of his life in Racine. The Bull House became a very fashionable address, and any number of widows who had lived with their husbands in large houses on Main Street retire here. Property is labeled as 1124, 1130-1134 S Main St on the Southside Historic District Map.
"It's hard to believe that the elegant Bull Manor apartments were constructed with materials from a horse stable. But, then, that stable was no ordinary barn.
The Tudor-style apartments were built in 1925 on the site of Stephen Bull's Tudor-style stables. Parts of the stables formed part of the superstructure for the new building, and materials from the tack room and carriage house were used for stair railings, wainscoting and ceiling beams.
Stephen Bull was president of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co, and his stables matched his high position. Once described as more elegant than the stables of European monarchs, the rooms featured mahogany woodwork, heavy rugs, and murals of the Kentucky hills.
Ironically, the stables had hardly been finished when horse had been replaced by automobiles. Stephen Bull was one of the first in line for an automobile, and in a short time the horse stable was converted into a garage. That garage is the apartment garage today, and it still contains the railroad-like turntable that turn Stephen Bull's first auto around." Renewing Our Roots: A Guide To Racine, Wisconsin, Central City, Southside, Preservation-Racine, 1977. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Racine Southside Historic District Walking Tour, 1990.
Racine Landmarks Preservation Commission, South Side Historic District Walking Tour Guide, 1993.
Renewing Our Roots: A Guide To Racine, Wisconsin, Central City, Southside, Preservation-Racine, 1977. |
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