1100 North Main Street (Racine, Wisconsin)

1100 North Main Street is a building on the northwest corner of North Main Street and Dodge Street in Racine, Wisconsin.

History
Lumber shacks were built on the property that is now part of 1100 North Main Street in the 1870s. The J.R. Morris Wood Yard was located at the site as of 1887. In 1906, James E. Decker operated a saloon at 1100 North Main Street, a small building in the southeast corner of the wood yard property.

Kelley Lumber Company, an established lumberyard in Racine, was based in downtown Racine until 1919. It also owned land at the northwest corner of North Main Street and Dodge Street, across the Root River from its main offices. In August 1919, the company applied for permission to construct two storage houses at 1100 North Main Street. On August 4, the Racine city council denied permission for the storage houses, because the location was within the city's fire limits. Within days, however, Kelley began advertising that it had moved its main offices to the North Main and Dodge lumberyard. In October 1919, the company was in the process of tearing down the 1870s-era lumber shacks to build modern brick sheds in their place, promising that the property would become "one of the most modern [lumberyards] in the state".