Talk:Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum

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Photos

Photos and/or photo uploads are needed.

HABS photos do not seem to be available for this site.
Some of NRHP photos linked in article may be NPS owned photos, hence would be public domain.
New photos would be helpful.

Done -Freekee (talk) 04:52, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

more info

Here's some text from the UWM website that may be useful.

Greene Museum was acquired in the Milwaukee Downer College campus purchase. It was named for Thomas Arnold Greene (1827-1894), a Milwaukee druggist and collector of plants, minerals, and fossils, and the husband of Elizabeth L. Greene.
In 1911 their children, Mrs. Horace A.J. Upham and Col. Howard Greene, presented their father's collection of 75,000 to 100,000 specimens to Milwaukee-Downer College. Two years later the museum was built to house the collection. Mrs. Upham donated $10,000 to erect the building. In 1964 UWM purchased the collection for $20,000. Greene Museum was remodeled and was opened to the public in 1970 under the supervision of the Department of Geological Sciences. In 1992, Geological Sciences was relocated to the new Lapham Hall Science Center addition, and the collection was installed in that facility in a modern display and research space. 3367 N. Downer Ave., Built: 1913, Cost: $ 10,547,
Architect: A.C. Eschweiler

-Freekee (talk) 22:47, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]