Southside Historic District

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The Southside Historic District is a large, prestigious historic neighborhood in Racine, Wisconsin, including over 500 contributing structures in various architectural styles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The William and Eliza Hunt house at 1247 S. Main Street is a Greek Revival-styled house with a portico supported by four Ionic columns. Hunt had it built in the 1840s at the corner of Ninth and Main Streets. Henry Mitchell later had it moved to Ninth and Lake. Mrs. J.W. Knight had it moved in 1912 to its present location. The Wallis house at 820 S. Main Street was begun around 1849 by Isaac Taylor, a lumber merchant. Its style is Greek Revival. Alexander McClurg, president of the City Bank of Racine and railroad entrepreneur, bought it in 1854. Jerome I. Case bought the house in 1887 to give to his daughter and her husband Henry M. Wallis, who eventually became president of the Case Plow Works. The Wallises probably remodeled the house in 1895. It later housed a VFW clubhouse. The Chauncey Hall House at 1235 S. Main Street, built in 1849, is one of the earliest surviving Gothic Revival houses in Wisconsin. It was built from bricks traded for suits that tailor Chauncey had made. The Eli R. Cooley House at 1135 S. Main Street is a Greek Revival house designed by Lucas Bradley and built 1851-54, like a Greek temple with wings. The Henry S. Durand house at 1012 S. Main Street was built in 1856, a 2-story cream brick Italianate villa. Durand was involved in banking, insurance, lumbering, railroads, and city planning. In 1920 a Masonic Order bought the house and added an Egyptian-style temple behind the house, designed by member Edmund Funston with cobras, lotus and papyrus motifs. 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. The Daniel Olin house at 1144 S. Main Street is an Italianate house designed by Lucas Bradley and built in 1868, two stories with a cupola. The house was built for Thomas Jones, a lumber man. It was later occupied by Daniel Olin, a railroad executive and mayor of Racine. First Baptist Church at 801 Wisconsin Avenue is a Gothic Revival-styled church built in 1876 with an angled square corner tower and a rose window. The house at 914 S. Wisconsin Avenue is Stick style, 2.5 stories, built in 1878. It is early for Stick style in Wisconsin.

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