The Greene Building at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was completed in 1931 for $400,000, paid from the Bankers Trust Fund. The institute needed it after founding its School of Architecture in 1929. Joseph Lawlor was the architect, and Ralph Gulley, the new head of architecture, advised on the design. The five-story building honors Benjamin Franklin Greene, director of Rensselaer from 1847 to 1859.
The names of fifteen deceased American architects are carved in stone above the second-story windows, among them Bulfinch, Burnham, Jefferson, McKim, Richardson and Sullivan. When it opened, the top three floors held the architecture department. The first two floors held general classrooms and gave temporary space to the English department and ROTC.
The School of Architecture now occupies the whole building. It holds an architecture library, a wood shop and studios that stay open around the clock.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from RPI Institute Archives: Greene Building, RPI School of Architecture, Wikipedia: List of RPI buildings.
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