For the Louisiana former state senator, see Tom Greene (Louisiana politician).
Thomas A. Greene was an amateur geologist in Wisconsin.[1] He was born in Rhode Island in 1827, and became successful in the retail drug industry in Milwaukee. He collected minerals and Devonian and Silurian fossils. He died in 1894 and his heirs donated his collection in 1911.[2]
The Thomas A. Green Memorial Museum and Collection is now a museum and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993.[3] It is a fireproof museum building which held the collection of Greene, an amateur geologist. In 1913, Greene's heirs had it built to house Greene's collection.[3] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.[1][3]
Greene collaborated with Fisk Holbrook Day whose former home, the Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.[4][5]
