Racine: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Kringle Pastry
Racine sits on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River. The city's economy has been shaped for more than a century by S.C. Johnson & Son, the family-owned household products company best known for Raid, Pledge, Windex, and Glade. The Johnson Wax Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1939, features the Great Workroom with its dendriform mushroom columns and cork-stopped glass tube skylights. The adjacent Research Tower, also Wright-designed and completed in 1950, operated as a laboratory until 1982 and has since been restored.
Racine's Danish immigrant community produced the kringle, an oval pastry of layered dough filled with fruit or nut fillings. The Wisconsin State Legislature designated kringle the official state pastry in 2013. Several Racine bakeries continue to ship kringle nationwide, and the product has become a widely recognized culinary marker of the city.
Case Corporation, now part of CNH Industrial, originated in Racine in 1842 as a thresher and steam engine manufacturer. The company's construction and agricultural equipment legacy continues under the CNH brand. The Racine Zoo, operating since 1923, overlooks Lake Michigan from its location near North Beach.
Users looking for escort services in Racine find the websites indexed on Escortservice.com. The directory is a listing service and nothing more. It does not facilitate meetings or verify any party. Only visitors who are at least 21 may use the directory.
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Racine sits on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River. The city's economy has been shaped for more than a century by S.C. Johnson & Son, the family-owned household products company best known for Raid, Pledge, Windex, and Glade. The Johnson Wax Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1939, features the Great Workroom with its dendriform mushroom columns and cork-stopped glass tube skylights. The adjacent Research Tower, also Wright-designed and completed in 1950, operated as a laboratory until 1982 and has since been restored.
Racine's Danish immigrant community produced the kringle, an oval pastry of layered dough filled with fruit or nut fillings. The Wisconsin State Legislature designated kringle the official state pastry in 2013. Several Racine bakeries continue to ship kringle nationwide, and the product has become a widely recognized culinary marker of the city.
Case Corporation, now part of CNH Industrial, originated in Racine in 1842 as a thresher and steam engine manufacturer. The company's construction and agricultural equipment legacy continues under the CNH brand. The Racine Zoo, operating since 1923, overlooks Lake Michigan from its location near North Beach.
Users looking for escort services in Racine find the websites indexed on Escortservice.com. The directory is a listing service and nothing more. It does not facilitate meetings or verify any party. Only visitors who are at least 21 may use the directory.
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