Lincoln School (Racine, Wisconsin)

Lincoln School Historic Apartments, formerly Lincoln School, is a former public school and current loft apartment building in Racine, Wisconsin.[1] Constructed in 1890, it replaced an earlier school on the other side of State Street, which had been built in 1862 and damaged by a tornado in 1883.[2] The school opened in April 1891, with eight classrooms. An addition was made in 1908, adding eight more rooms, as well as an auditorium, stockroom, nurse's room, and teacher's lounge. A statue of the school's namesake, Abraham Lincoln, was erected on a triangular plot next to the school in 1923. A chimney was added in 1932, with a boiler house built in 1936.[3] The school closed in 1981, and was used for storage by the school district until it was sold to the Toldt-Hennessy Group of Brookfield in 1988. On September 1, 1991, the first tenants moved into the newly converted Lincoln School Historic Apartments, a loft building geared toward seniors.[4]

Lincoln School
Lincoln School (Racine, Wisconsin) is located in Wisconsin
Lincoln School (Racine, Wisconsin)
Location1800 State Street, Racine, Wisconsin
Coordinates42°44′06.0″N 87°48′14.0″W
ArchitectA. Arthur Guilbert and James Gilbert Chandler
Architectural styleRomanesque architecture
NRHP reference No.94000999
Added to NRHP19 August 1994

References
  1. "Lincoln School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  2. Fennell, George D. Racine, p. 101.
  3. Toldt, Helmut (January 25, 1994). "NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form: Lincoln School". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved July 15, 2018. With 21 photos.
  4. Old Schools, Racine Journal Times, 4 Nov. 1997.


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