See a huge downtown department store from 1924, with a ridiculous-looking expansion and a tiny 2018 Honda CR-V.
"Put the white terracotta up by the roof where nobody can see it."
-----------------------
In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, the former Zahn's Department Store (built in 1924, vacated in 1982; designed by Edmund B. Funston; a "contributing property" in the Old Main Street Historic District, 87000491 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of 5th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, as viewed during its conversion to a boutique hotel.
-----------------------
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Racine (7014308)
• Racine (county) (1002815)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• additions (general components) (300055458)
• architectural terracotta (300010670)
• beige (color) (300266234)
• blank walls (300002474)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• brownish orange (300126858)
• Chicago School (300182420)
• Chicago windows (300002959)
• concrete (300010737)
• department stores (300005344)
• glazed terracotta (300298634)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• historic districts (300000737)
• light yellowish brown (300127681)
• oblique views (300015503)
• parapets (300002717)
• remodeling (300135427)
• repurposing (300417716)
• white (color) (300129784)
Wikidata items:
• 25 April 2021 (Q69306031)
• 1920s in architecture (Q11185486)
• 1924 in architecture (Q2386756)
• 2010s in transport (Q97500663)
• 2018 in transport (Q28683641)
• April 25 (Q2531)
• April 2021 (Q61313052)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• crossover SUV (Q875600)
• Edmund Bailey Funston (Q16066700)
• glazed architectural terra-cotta (Q5567349)
• Honda CR-V (Q255461)
• Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI Combined Statistical Area (Q110495108)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• Old Main Street Historic District (Q7084439)
• Treaty of Chicago (1833) (Q87256769)
• vacant building (Q56056305)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Concrete walls (sh85030747)
See a huge downtown department store from 1924, with a ridiculous-looking expansion and a tiny 2018 Honda CR-V.
"Put the white terracotta up by the roof where nobody can see it."
-----------------------
In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, the former Zahn's Department Store (built in 1924, vacated in 1982; designed by Edmund B. Funston; a "contributing property" in the Old Main Street Historic District, 87000491 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of 5th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, as viewed during its conversion to a boutique hotel.
-----------------------
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Racine (7014308)
• Racine (county) (1002815)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• additions (general components) (300055458)
• architectural terracotta (300010670)
• beige (color) (300266234)
• blank walls (300002474)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• brownish orange (300126858)
• Chicago School (300182420)
• Chicago windows (300002959)
• concrete (300010737)
• department stores (300005344)
• glazed terracotta (300298634)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• historic districts (300000737)
• light yellowish brown (300127681)
• oblique views (300015503)
• parapets (300002717)
• remodeling (300135427)
• repurposing (300417716)
• white (color) (300129784)
Wikidata items:
• 25 April 2021 (Q69306031)
• 1920s in architecture (Q11185486)
• 1924 in architecture (Q2386756)
• 2010s in transport (Q97500663)
• 2018 in transport (Q28683641)
• April 25 (Q2531)
• April 2021 (Q61313052)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• crossover SUV (Q875600)
• Edmund Bailey Funston (Q16066700)
• glazed architectural terra-cotta (Q5567349)
• Honda CR-V (Q255461)
• Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI Combined Statistical Area (Q110495108)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• Old Main Street Historic District (Q7084439)
• Treaty of Chicago (1833) (Q87256769)
• vacant building (Q56056305)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Concrete walls (sh85030747)