{"id":7081,"date":"2026-10-15T23:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/?page_id=7081"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:51:59","slug":"drexel-hotel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/features\/drexel-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Drexel Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1902_03_29_7-Drexel-Hotel-and-Cafe-416-Main-Street-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1902_03_29_7-Drexel-Hotel-and-Cafe-416-Main-Street-1024x484.jpg\" alt=\"The Drexel Hotel and Cafe, Jos. Brandenburg, Proprietor. The Racine Daily Journal, March 29, 1902. \nMeals by day or week.\nFormerly Wagner House.\n416 Main St. Phone 266.\" class=\"wp-image-7082\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1902_03_29_7-Drexel-Hotel-and-Cafe-416-Main-Street-1024x484.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1902_03_29_7-Drexel-Hotel-and-Cafe-416-Main-Street-300x142.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1902_03_29_7-Drexel-Hotel-and-Cafe-416-Main-Street-768x363.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1902_03_29_7-Drexel-Hotel-and-Cafe-416-Main-Street-1536x726.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1902_03_29_7-Drexel-Hotel-and-Cafe-416-Main-Street-2048x968.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Drexel Hotel and Cafe, Jos. Brandenburg, Proprietor. The Racine Daily Journal, March 29, 1902. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1905_08_23_5-searching-for-her-husband-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1905_08_23_5-searching-for-her-husband-314x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IN SEARCH OF HUSBAND\n\nWoman, Much Excited, Thought Spouse Was With Another Woman in Racine.\nThe Racine Daily Journal, August 23, 1905. \n\nHandsome, well dressed, but terribly excited and wrought up, a woman paced up and down Main street for three hours last evening. The territory covered was between the Racine House, located in the Judd block and the Wisconsin Telephone company building. Evidently she was looking for some one.\n\nEntering the Racine House she inquired of Mrs. Baumstark, the lady in charge, if there was a man named Lincoln stopping there and whether he had a woman whom he called his wife. Mrs. Baumstark assured the woman that no such persons were stopping there nor had they been in her hotel. Then the woman said she was looking after her husband, claiming that he was in the city employed as a cableman for the Wisconsin Telephone company and that she had reasons to believe he was with another woman.\n\nSTOPPED AT DREXEL HOTEL.\n\nInquiry showed that R. D. Lincoln had been employed by the Wisconsin Telephone company; that he had been here for some time and stopped at both the Belvidere and Drexel hotels. At the former house his wife was with him, but at the Drexel he was alone.\n\nYesterday morning he paid his bill at the Drexel and departed for Green Bay, Wis. The woman chasing after him, when she learned that the man had departed for Green Bay, hurried to the Chicago &amp; Northwestern depot and departed for Green Bay. Before going she threatened to kill someone, but as yet no tragedy has been reported from the northern city.\n\nManager Erb of the Wisconsin Telephone Co., was called by \u2019phone and said that R. D. Lincoln had been employed by his company, that he had a lady with him and she was supposed to be his wife. Lincoln was a cableman and sent to different cities.\n\nWhether the woman who started after him was searching for some other man and made a mistake, is not known.\" class=\"wp-image-7087\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1905_08_23_5-searching-for-her-husband-314x1024.jpg 314w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1905_08_23_5-searching-for-her-husband-92x300.jpg 92w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1905_08_23_5-searching-for-her-husband-768x2503.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1905_08_23_5-searching-for-her-husband-471x1536.jpg 471w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1905_08_23_5-searching-for-her-husband-628x2048.jpg 628w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1905_08_23_5-searching-for-her-husband-scaled.jpg 785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Woman, Much Excited, Thought Spouse Was With Another Woman in Racine. The Racine Daily Journal, August 23, 1905.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_09_3-hotel-gossip-including-drexel-hotel-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_09_3-hotel-gossip-including-drexel-hotel-837x1024.jpg\" alt=\"HOTEL GOSSIP\nRacine Daily Journal, March 9, 1910. \n\u201cHully gee, have they all gone?\u201d quizzed the bellhop in a local hotel from his hiding place behind a radiator this morning, after he had been kept on the jump for over an hour waiting on a portion of \u201cThe Gentleman From Mississippi\u201d show troupe.\n\nWhen informed that he was safe, he left his \u201cfortress\u201d and heaved forth a sigh of relief such as comes from the audience at the theater when the villain has been killed or disposed of.\n\n\u201cJust think of it,\u201d he went on \u201cthat whole bunch kept me jumping and then I only got one little ten cent piece as a tip and that came from the leading lady. I say she is all right, so is Burr McIntosh, the leading man, for he tipped me pal to a two-bit piece, but the rest of them I don\u2019t want to see again. Solong.\u201d\n\nThe following are the Wisconsin and Chicago guests at the local hotels today:\n\nHotel Racine\u2014E. P. Schaefer, James Wingfield, H. D. North, A. D. Rummell, Walter Cohen, Edward Dayton, J. K. Sokolik, D. J. Delaney, L. C. Rogers, and F. M. Hughson, of Chicago; A. G. Hauser, Henn Imse, A. Harper and A. G. Hansen, of Milwaukee, W. H. Williams, of Madison and E. J. Neinan, of Rhinelander.\n\nHotel Belvidere\u2014Martin Peterson, of Chicago; D. Leon Rotschka, of Beloit; William Vyoyan, of Union Grove; Mrs. G. G. Young, of Watertown; Fred Gevene, of Appleton, and B. Beck, of North Cape.\n\nMerchants Hotel\u2014J. Magil, of Milwaukee; C. O. Christ, of Fort Atkinson; Joe L. Weber, William Walcott and George B. Miller, of Chicago.\n\nDrexel Hotel\u2014Charles Conklin, A. J. Smith and E. L. Millon, of Chicago.\n\n(Note: The image shows the article continuing from a previous column at the top right, and the page also includes unrelated advertisements for Perry Davis\u2019 Painkiller and fur storage. The transcription above focuses on the Hotel Gossip content as visible.)\n\" class=\"wp-image-7096\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_09_3-hotel-gossip-including-drexel-hotel-837x1024.jpg 837w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_09_3-hotel-gossip-including-drexel-hotel-245x300.jpg 245w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_09_3-hotel-gossip-including-drexel-hotel-768x940.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_09_3-hotel-gossip-including-drexel-hotel-1255x1536.jpg 1255w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_09_3-hotel-gossip-including-drexel-hotel-1674x2048.jpg 1674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Drexel Hotel\u2014Charles Conklin, A. J. Smith and E. L. Millon, of Chicago. Racine Daily Journal, March 9, 1910.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_17_8-people-living-at-Drexel-Hotel-412-Main-Street-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_17_8-people-living-at-Drexel-Hotel-412-Main-Street-1024x329.jpg\" alt=\"412 Elminger B.\nPeter Hanson Drexel Hotel\nCharles Christenen Drexel Hotel\nJohnson Andrew Drexel Hotel\nMcDearmonth F. Drexel Hotel \nGlane John Drexel Hotel\" class=\"wp-image-7091\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_17_8-people-living-at-Drexel-Hotel-412-Main-Street-1024x329.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_17_8-people-living-at-Drexel-Hotel-412-Main-Street-300x96.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_17_8-people-living-at-Drexel-Hotel-412-Main-Street-768x247.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_17_8-people-living-at-Drexel-Hotel-412-Main-Street-1536x493.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The_Journal_Times_1910_03_17_8-people-living-at-Drexel-Hotel-412-Main-Street-2048x658.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People living at the Drexel Hotel according to the March 17, 1910 Racine Daily Journal. Notice that the address here is listed as 412 Main Street. It is possible that the 412 is next to Elminger B. to show he was not in the Drexel Hotel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Racine-City-Directory-416-Main-Street-Drexel-Hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Racine-City-Directory-416-Main-Street-Drexel-Hotel.jpg\" alt=\"From the 1916 Racine City Directory, the Drexel Hotel and the Duchmann &amp; Grenniger saloon at 416 Main Street.\" class=\"wp-image-7085\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Racine-City-Directory-416-Main-Street-Drexel-Hotel.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Racine-City-Directory-416-Main-Street-Drexel-Hotel-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From the 1916 Racine City Directory, the Drexel Hotel and the Duchmann &amp; Grenniger saloon at 416 Main Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7081","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7081\/revisions\/7101"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}