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80000177. Added to NRHP. 10 April 1980. Memorial Hall is a convention and meeting hall built in 1924–25 in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. [1] It is operated by the Racine Civic Center. [2] It was given to the city as a gift by William Horlick, the original patent holder of malted milk. [3] The hall has played host to Barack Obama, John McCain ...
120th and 129th Field Artillery Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and Federally recognized 9 June 1947 in central Wisconsin as the 120th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 32d Infantry Division, with headquarters at Stevens Point. Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1959 as the 120th Artillery, a parent regiment under the ...
Western Publishing, also known as Western Printing and Lithographing Company, was a Racine, Wisconsin, firm responsible for publishing the Little Golden Books.Its Golden Books Family Entertainment division also produced children's books and family-related entertainment products.
Johnson Wax Headquarters is the world headquarters and administration building of S. C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin. Designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the company's president, Herbert F. "Hib" Johnson, the building was constructed from 1936 to 1939. [3] Its distinctive "lily pad" columns and other innovations revived ...
The Racine Heritage Museum is a historical museum building and former Carnegie library, located at 701 S. Main St. in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. Designed by John Mauran in the Beaux-Arts style, [1] the building served as the Racine Public Library from 1904 until 1958, and has housed the Racine Heritage Museum since 1963. [2]
John's Chapel at Racine College, in Racine, Wisconsin, ca. 1910 Racine College was an Episcopal preparatory school and college in Racine, Wisconsin , that operated between 1852 and 1933. [3] Located south of the city along Lake Michigan , the campus has been maintained and is today known as the DeKoven Center , a conference center, educational ...
t. e. The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the eight U.S. representatives from the state of Wisconsin, one from each of the state's eight congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of ...
A news-gathering cooperative, the Federated Press, which began in 1920, was the first news service that provided affiliated papers with international reports of interest to the working class. Jon Bekken states that the Federated Press survived into the early 1950s as the only independent news service that supplied information to 150 papers ...