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The Elmendorf house at 1844 S. Wisconsin Avenue is a 2-story cream brick Italianate-styled home designed by Fredrick Graham and probably built about 1860 for Rev. John Elmendorf, a professor of "intellectual philosophy" and English literature at Racine College. In 1891 it was bought by Henry and Emilie Hurlburt, whose company made wagon hardware.
Racine (/ r ə ˈ s iː n, r eɪ-/ ⓘ rə-SEEN, ray-) [8] is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River, situated 22 miles (35 km) south of Milwaukee and 60 miles (97 km) north of Chicago. [9]
In the United States on May 11, 2006, retired Roman Catholic priest Gerald Robinson (14 April 1938 – 4 July 2014) was convicted of the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl (1908–1980), a Sister of Mercy, a Catholic religious order of women [1] on Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980. Robinson repeatedly appealed, but without success.
St. Catherine's traces its origins to the fall of 1864 when the Racine Dominican Sisters [2] established an all-girls' day and boarding academy. In the fall of 1864, the Racine Dominican Sisters opened a day and boarding school for girls on property they purchased at Twelfth Street and Park Avenue.
The home was originally built around 1824 for Frederick Agler who, with his family, was one of the first settlers to Mifflin Township in 1806. Agler would rise to prominence in the local community and later be elected Mifflin Township Justice of the Peace in 1811.
In 1912, the name was changed to the Racine Journal News. The newspaper's former radio station, WRJN, was founded in December 1926. Starbuck died in 1929, his son, Frank R. Starbuck, became publisher, and in 1932 the paper merged with the Racine Times-Call, the other local daily, to become the Journal Times.
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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]