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]
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| Location | 1800 State Street, Racine, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates | 42°44′06.0″N 87°48′14.0″W / 42.735000°N 87.803889°W |
| Architect | A. Arthur Guilbert and James Gilbert Chandler |
| Architectural style | Romanesque architecture |
| NRHP reference No. | 94000999 |
| Added to NRHP | 19 August 1994 |
References edit
- ^ "Lincoln School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
- ^ Fennell, George D. Racine, p. 101.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Old Schools, Racine Journal Times, 4 Nov. 1997.