The Johnson Wax Headquarters is the corporate campus of S. C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin, built by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright with the engineer William Wesley Peters in two stages: the Administration Building, completed in April 1939, and the taller Research Tower, completed in November 1950. The Administration Building's main workroom, built in Wright's Streamline Moderne style, is lit through walls of Pyrex glass tubing rather than conventional windows, and it is held up by concrete shell columns that widen at the top into broad calyxes. The Research Tower alternates square work floors with circular mezzanines cantilevered from a central core. Both structures are faced in curving brick and were designated National Historic Landmarks in 1976, after first being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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Completed YearSource dates the Administration Building only; the Research Tower was dedicated in 1950. Building Type LocationRacine, Wisconsin, United States 1 Classification
Standing Status Building Type
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Opening paragraph
The Johnson Wax Headquarters is the corporate headquarters of the household goods company S. C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin, United States.
Administration Building
the Administration Building, completed in April 1939
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Johnson Wax Headquarters is the corporate campus of S. C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin, built by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright with the engineer William Wesley Peters in two stages: the Administration Building, completed in April 1939, and the taller Research Tower, completed in November 1950. The Administration Building's main workroom, built in Wright's Streamline Moderne style, is lit through walls of Pyrex glass tubing rather than conventional windows, and it is held up by concrete shell columns that widen at the top into broad calyxes. The Research Tower alternates square work floors with circular mezzanines cantilevered from a central core. Both structures are faced in curving brick and were designated National Historic Landmarks in 1976, after first being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
In Style: Streamline Moderne, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Streamline Moderne
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia lead
The Johnson Administration Building is designed in a variation of the streamlined Art Moderne style, with a curved brick facade and Pyrex glass-tube windows.
Uses Element: Glass, Wikipedia lead
The Johnson Administration Building is designed in a variation of the streamlined Art Moderne style, with a curved brick facade and Pyrex glass-tube windows.
Uses Element: Concrete, Wikipedia lead
The Johnson Administration Building is designed in a variation of the streamlined Art Moderne style, with a curved brick facade and Pyrex glass-tube windows.
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