Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum, also known as Greene Geological Museum or Greene Museum, was a mineral and fossil museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin administered by the Department of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
The fireproof museum building, designed by noted Milwaukee architect, Alexander Eschweiler, held the collection of Thomas A. Greene, an amateur geologist. In 1913, Greene's heirs had it built to house his collection...
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Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum, also known as Greene Geological Museum or Greene Museum, was a mineral and fossil museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin administered by the Department of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
The fireproof museum building, designed by noted Milwaukee architect, Alexander Eschweiler, held the collection of Thomas A. Greene, an amateur geologist. In 1913, Greene's heirs had it built to house his collection. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.
The collection has been removed from the building, and is now housed in Lapham Hall on the UWM campus.
Greene collaborated with another amateur, Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day, whose home, the Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House, has also been designated a National Historic Landmark.
The building, used for storage, is to be renovated and will be used as academic space for UWM's Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies beginning in 2011.
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