Property Record
402 9TH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST |
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| Other Name: | FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 11199 |
| Location (Address): | 402 9TH ST |
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| County: | Racine |
| City: | Racine |
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| Year Built: | 1920 |
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| Survey Date: | 1975 |
| Historic Use: | church |
| Architectural Style: | Neoclassical/Beaux Arts |
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| Wall Material: | Stucco |
| Architect: | SOLON SPENCER BEMAN |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Southside Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 10/18/1977 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | This distinguished neoclassical ediface was by the reknowned Chicago architect, Solon Spencer Beman, and built by Anton Kratochival. Here he executed a formal plan with very refined moldings and a strictly symmetrical composition with eight Ionic columns. The white stucco finish accentuates the simple beauty of moldings and the shadows they cast. IONIC COLONNADE,PEDIMENTS OVER ENTRIES [Date Cnst:-1921] [B] The church was designed by Spencer Solon Beman (1887-1952), a Chicago architect who was the son of Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914), the planner of Pullman, Illinois. Spencer designed and built about eighty churches for Christian Science congregations throughout the Middle West. The Racine congregation was organized in 1887, and after twelve itinerant years, the members bought and remodeled a house at Seventh and Main into a church, where they met until services were held here for the first time in December of 1921. The interior, however, was not completed until 1926. |
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| Bibliographic References: | ZIMMERMANN, RUSSELL "THE HERITAGE GUIDEBOOK" (HERITAGE BANKS 1976) THE HISTORIC NAME CAME FROM THE "SOUTHSIDE HISTORIC DISTRICT WALKING TOUR GUIDE". [B] Southside Historic District Walking Tour Guide. The Racine Landmarks Preservation Commission, May 1993. Drawing of church, Racine Journal-News, 2 September 1920, p.12. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |