Editing Greene Building (section)

=Architecture=
The building was 165 feet in plan, and was constructed along the south line of campus, adjacent to the athletic field. Harvard brick along with limestone trimmings were used as the primary building material. Above the second-story windows, the names of 15 of the most renowned, deceased American architects at the time were cut in stone: Bulfinch, Burnham, Goodhue, Hooker, Hunt, Jefferson, Latrobe, McComb, McIntyre, McKim, Mills, Renwick, Richardson, Sullivan, and Upjohn. Named after Benjamin Franklin Greene, the Director of Rensselaer from 1847 to 1859, the Greene building was constructed using money accumulated in the Bankers Trust Fund. The cost was $400,000, worth over $7 million today.