Wright Avenue (Racine, Wisconsin)

Wright Avenue is a west-east residential street on the west side of the city of Racine, Wisconsin. The street extends 1.88 mi from Washington Avenue in the east to South Green Bay Road in the west. Wright Avenue is equivalent to 1400 in Racine's addressing system; that is, buildings along cross streets immediately south of Wright have street addresses beginning with 1400, while buildings immediately north of it have addresses beginning with 1300. It is aligned with Fairview Terrace, Maiden Lane, and Fourteenth Street, which follow a similar route to the east.

History
In 1893, when what would become Wright Avenue was almost entirely outside the boundaries of the city of Racine, part of what would become the street's route defined the property line between F. Simonsen and W.A. Crane. Wright Avenue was first laid out and developed around 1895 by the Jay Eye See Land Company, which used the new street as the boundary between its first and second subdivisions.