Property Record
740 COLLEGE AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | RACINE YWCA |
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| Reference Number: | 28940 |
| Location (Address): | 740 COLLEGE AVE |
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| County: | Racine |
| City: | Racine |
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| Year Built: | 1952 |
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| Survey Date: | 1994 |
| Historic Use: | recreational building/gymnasium |
| Architectural Style: | Art/Streamline Moderne |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | FITZHUGH SCOTT, JR.; Scott, Kloppenburg, Scott |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Builder was Johnson and Hendrickson. (B) "The Racine YWCA was formally organized in 1894, and during its first 25 years it had six different homes. In 1921 it remodeled the old St. Luke's Guild Hall at 312-316 Seventh Street and stayed there until this building was completed in 1953. It was designed by Fitzhugh Scott Jr., a Milwaukee architect, in the modern style- popular from the 1930s through the 1950s- and it is constructed of "tawny" brick trimmed with Indiana limestone. In 1949 Frank Lloyd Wright had prepared a concept for a Racine YWCA that was long, low, linear and typically inventive. A building committee rejected it. Fitzhugh Scott gave them a tawny rendition of a few curves from Wright's Johnson Wax Administration Building and something like Wright's horizontal glass tubing, set vertically at the entrance." |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) BUILDING PERMIT NO. 38-308, ISSUED 5/22/52. CITY HALL, RACINE, WISCONSIN. (B) DON RINTZ, RACINE: SOUTHSIDE HISTORIC DISTICT WALKING TOUR GUIDE (RACINE, WI: LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION, 1993), 48. Wisconsin Architect, Jan. 1956, cover illus, and p. 6 - credits deisgn of the building to Scott, Kloppenburg, Scott |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |