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DESIGNED BY EDMUND B. FUNSTON WHO CAME TO RACINE IN 1903. HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A.A. GUILBERT FROM 1905 TO 1915, WHEN THE PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. ZAHN'S WAS ONCE DOWNTOWN RACINE'S MAJOR DEPARTMENT STORE. IT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED AS ZAHN'S DRY GOODS COMPANY AT 428 MAIN BY EDWARD ZAHN IN 1898. THE DEPARTMENT STORE MOVED TO AN EXPANDED LOCATION AT 436-438 MAIN ABOUT 1916 AND TO THIS NEW BUILDING NINE YEARS LATER, WHERE IT REMAINED UNTIL THE EARLY 1980S WHEN COMPETITION FROM SUBURBAN SHOPPING CENTERS DROVE IT OUT OF BUSINESS.
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Racine Public Library
Copy of artist's rendering of exterior view of a proposed Carnegie Branch Library in Racine. At bottom center it reads: "Design For Proposed, Carnegie Branch Library, Racine Wisc., Guilbert & Funst...
