Built in 1930 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The United States Post Office in downtown Racine, Wisconsin is a post office operated by the United States Postal Service. It is located at 603 Main Street, in a classical revival-style building designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Racine, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Racine County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1930, Neoclassical architecture, by James A. Wetmore.
National Register reference number.85000989- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Resolved , That we, the early settlers of Racine county, extend a cordial greeting to each other on this, our first gathering, to revive the recollections and renew the friendships of the early days ; and we would return devout thanks to Him who has sustained and blessed us hitherto.
Resolved , That for beauty of landscape, fertility of soil, and easy access to market, for agricultural improvement? for improved stock, for general thrift, intelligence and morals, Racine county will, in our judgment, compare favorably with any other in the State.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Racine Main
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Debris and open burning
7
Smoking
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of US Post Office-Racine Main: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Racine, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2006: 13 hail, 8 lightning, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Lightning struck the chimney of a home in the 1000 block on Main St. in Racine. There was no fire, but the top portion of the chimney was destroyed, with bricks littering the nearby yard and sidewalk. The time of occurrence, 08CST is only an estimate - all that is known is that the lightning strike occurred during the morning hours.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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