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Lintner Building at 613 Wisconsin Ave is a unique 3-story building with two huge bay windows at the second and third story and a sheet metal cornice. It is built of sand brick with limestone trim. This type of brick was produced by William and Chauncey Lathrop's Sand Brick Chemical Company
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Charlotte Schad Building at 308 Sixth St was built in 1873, a 2-story Italianate building with brick hood moldings, limestone sills, and a brick cornice. It is rightmost in the photo above. It was built as a saloon for Charles Madory who lived upstairs. Just left of it in the photo is
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Kaiser's at 218 Sixth St is a 2-story store with a facade redone in 1928 in glazed pink terra cotta designed by Frank J. Hoffman in an Art Deco style. It housed
Maurice and Helen Kaiser's men's clothing store for forty years. It stands little altered from
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Stephen Campbell Building at 407 Sixth St is a 2-story building with elaborate brickwork in Italianate style. In this one the three second-story windows have windows topped with segmental arches built of three layers of brick which suggest
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Italianate building with a front of cream brick and limestone trim, topped with a cornice of pressed sheet metal. George Rickeman had immigrated to the U.S. in 1853 and served in the
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National Bank Trust Department at 216 Sixth St is next door to Kaiser's, and similar in style. It is also Art Deco designed by Frank J. Hoffman, but here the medium is gray granite and it was built in
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The Fire Museum at 700 Sixth St was built in 1881 as Racine Fire
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Klinkert Building at 615 Sixth St was built in 1915 as a 2-story tavern and pool hall. The exterior is red brick trimmed in limestone. The cornice at the top and the hint of a
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Robinson Building at 201-203 Sixth St is a 5-story office building built around 1900. It was designed by C.A. Dickhaut in an eclectic style. Some of the arrays of windows are grouped
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store in 1884. The styling is Italianate, similar to the Rickeman Grocery above, but simpler and with the storefront probably little changed from 1884, other than paint.
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was built from Monument Square west along Sixth Street and heading out of town to the west, the business district turned west and began to grow along Sixth Street.
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automobiles in 1927. Its horizontal lines and yellows and greens are Prairie Style. The geometric ornaments and colored terra cotta show an influence of
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The American National Bank Building at 302-304 Sixth St is a 3-story building in its own style, red brick trimmed in limestone and decorated with three
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The Fred W. Plath Building at 405 Sixth St is a one-story store built in 1930, with large display windows and the exterior walls finished in green
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468:(For more information on any of these, see the references. The WHS links contain photos and the NRHP nomination contains architectural details.)
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Here is a sample of the district's significant buildings in the order built, showing the progression of styles and functions through the years.
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in Milwaukee before he bought Phillip Shelling's City Brewery, which grew into the E. Klinkert Brewing Company, the largest brewery in Racine.
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the very similar August Garnkaufer tailor shop at 310 Sixth St, built in 1874. Garnkaufer also lived in the quarters above his shop.
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661:"A. Garnkaufer Building (310)"
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1038:"Century Motor Co Building"
727:"Rickeman Grocery Building"
617:"Stephen Campbell Building"
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319:P.T. Barnum
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1082:"Kaiser's"
583:35 photos.
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432:Studebaker
284:Queen Anne
200:St. Luke's
151:Italianate
140:Plank Road
136:Janesville
132:Root River
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427:building.
413:building.
382:Frankfurt
341:pilasters
315:J.I. Case
269:dry goods
262:Civil War
210:Episcopal
182:pilasters
155:limestone
123:in 1988.
436:Art Deco
418:rosettes
370:pediment
96:88000263
79:Location
190:trefoil
186:arcades
171:corbels
167:cornice
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363:stucco
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