© Mark Hertzberg (2025)

Frank Lloyd Wright had a commission from H.F. Johnson Jr. to design a new YWCA building in Racine, Wisconsin in 1949. I first wrote about it in 2004 in my book Wright in Racine (Pomegranate). It came to mind again last week when http://www.racinecountyeye.com, a local news website published a news story about a zoning controversy involving the non-Wright building which is now for sale again. The zoning controversy involves a social services agency that wants to buy the building that was last used as a church. I told them about the Wright angle to the story, and they published my piece, updated. I am posting a link to the story because that way you can see two of Wright’s drawings. I cannot independently post the drawings to this website because of copyright considerations, which cannot be addressed during the holidays. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Avery Library kindly gave permission for these two drawings to be used with the piece on Eye:

https://racinecountyeye.com/2025/12/22/wright-design-racine-ywca-building/

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