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1937

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S.C. Johnson Wax Chiar Racine, Wisconsin

1936

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S.C. Johnson Wax Company Administrative Building Racine, Wisconsin

1986

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Restoration to the original design is underway.

1985

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Steelcase purchases the home and extensive restoration research begins.

1965

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Charles Newcomb dies, age 91. Mrs. Newcomb rents apartments in the 1922 addition.

1945

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The Newcomb family buys the home. Over the next 40 years, carports and apartment entrances are added.

1942

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Charles Helmer family purchases the house. Remaining Wright-designed furniture is included in the sale.

1936

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Meyer May dies, November 7, age 65. The house remains empty for the next six years.

1922

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Addition by Osgood & Osgood adds new space, including two bedrooms upstairs & servants’ quarters on the main floor.

1921

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Meyer May marries Rae Stern, a Chicago widow with two children (divorced 1929).

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