D P Wigley Company has been in Downtown Racine since the 1890s. D P Wigley started his business in the early 1890s by having a load of flour dumped through his living room picture window on the 700 block of Villa St. after which he manually bagged the product and served it to his customers. He quickly outgrew the house and moved to the College Avenue location which became known as Wigley Hall. He soon outgrew that also, and bought the former Emerson Linseed Oil/Racine City mill in 1903 where it remains today. D P Wigley died about ten years later, and the business was run by his wife for the next 30 or so years. After she gave up her position as president her nephew ran the business until it became an employee owned business, Mark and Chris Flynn bought the business in 1998, and while it remained as a feed-seed-and grain operation, they added a brewing and winemaking store called Hop to It Brewing & Winemaking Supplies, and also added essential oils and a brewery.
