In 2005, MSOE purchased with donated funds the former Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago building for a museum to display MSOE’s art collection, Man
at Work: The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection at Milwaukee School of Engineering,
as well as faculty offices for the General Studies
Department. The museum will provide a destination venue for the campus community
and public to view these works. Extensive renovation is currently underway.
The three-story, 38,000-square-foot concrete structure was built in 1924 as an automobile dealership that for many years was called Metropolitan Cadillac, owned by Glenn Humphrey. In more recent times, the Federal Reserve Bank occupied the building for at least 20 years until it ceased operation there in 2004.
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