Office and Renovation Cleanouts Near the SC Johnson / Frank Lloyd Wright Campus

A Global Headquarters Founded in Racine in 1886

SC Johnson — the maker of Windex, Pledge, Raid, Glade, Ziploc and more — was founded in Racine in 1886 and remains headquartered here, a privately held, family-run company now on its fifth generation of family leadership. That kind of continuity is rare for a company of its size, and it means the SC Johnson campus has been a fixture of Racine's Howe Street corridor for well over a century, not a recent corporate arrival.

Two of the Most Celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings in America

The SC Johnson campus is built around two genuinely landmark Frank Lloyd Wright structures. The Administration Building, commissioned in 1936 and opened in 1939, is centered on the Great Workroom — an open office space held up by Wright's famous slender "dendriform" (tree-shaped) concrete columns, only about nine inches across at the base but flaring to roughly 18.5 feet at the top, lit by an estimated 43 miles of Pyrex glass tubing used in place of conventional windows. The Research Tower, opened in 1950, stands 153 feet tall and was engineered as one of the tallest cantilevered structures ever built — its floors extend from a central core with no perimeter columns supporting them. Both buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and in 1986 the American Institute of Architects named them among the ten best examples of American architecture of the preceding half-century.

Wingspread and the Golden Rondelle Theater

A short distance north in the Village of Wind Point sits Wingspread, the Wright-designed Johnson family residence built 1938–1939 — one of Wright's largest residential commissions, organized around a central three-story octagonal room known as "the Wigwam." It's been a National Historic Landmark since 1989 and has operated since 1960 as an educational conference center run by the Johnson Foundation, not as an everyday family home. Back on the main campus, the Golden Rondelle Theater has an unusual history of its own: it began life as the Johnson's Wax Pavilion at the 1964–65 New York World's Fair, was disassembled after the fair closed, and reopened on the Racine campus in July 1967, where it still screens films and hosts community events today.

What Cleanout and Renovation Work Looks Like Near the Campus

The neighborhoods and commercial blocks around SC Johnson's headquarters include a mix of older office buildings, retail spaces and residential streets that have grown up around a single major employer for more than a century. Office cleanouts here tend to run the same way they do anywhere — outdated furniture, cubicle systems and fixtures coming out ahead of a space turning over — but renovation work on the area's older commercial and residential buildings can also turn up plaster instead of drywall, original trim and wood siding worth setting aside rather than demolishing outright, similar to renovation work anywhere else in Racine's older neighborhoods.

Working Around an Active Corporate Campus

SC Johnson's headquarters generates real daytime traffic on the streets around it, and any project nearby — an office cleanout, a retail buildout, a home renovation on a neighboring block — is worth planning delivery and pickup timing around. Tell us the address and we'll work out a schedule that doesn't collide with the busiest stretch of the day near the campus.

Sizing for an Office or Campus-Area Renovation

A straightforward office furniture-and-fixture cleanout often fits a 15 yard, our size built around flooring and multi-room updates. A fuller office floor or a retail space undergoing a buildout more often calls for a 20 or 30 yard, sized for medium remodels and whole-office cleanouts respectively. Whatever the scope, pricing stays flat-rate — the size, the type of materials and how long you keep the container are the only variables.