Herbert M. Greene

Name

Greene, Herbert M.

Personal Information

Birth/Death:    deceased 2/8/1932
Occupation:    American architect
Location (state):    TX

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AIA Affiliation

Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1920-decease
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) 1923

Biographical Sources

Biographical Directories:
Entry in Henry F. Withey, A.I.A., and Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Facsimile edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970)
Biographical information:
Contributed by the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas:
Herbert Miller Greene was born in Huntington, Pennsylvania and spent his childhood in Peoria, Illinois. After receiving his B.S. in architecture from the University of Illinois in 1893, he practiced architecture in Peoria for several years and married Annie Williams in 1895. Greene moved to Dallas in 1897 where he began a partnership with James Hubbell. Hubbell and Greene were responsible for some of the earliest Sullivanesque designs in Texas, such as the Kingman Texas Implement Company Building. By 1919, Hubbell had left the firm. Other important works by the firm included the Nieman-Marcus Building, the Dallas News Building, and Scottish Rite cathedrals in Dallas, El Paso, and San Antonio, Texas and Joplin, Missouri.
In 1922 he was appointed "university architect" for the University of Texas, a post he held for the next ten years. During this time, he designed 10 buildings including the Biology Building (1925), Garrison Hall (1926), and Littlefield Dormitory (1927). After Paul Cret became consulting architect in 1930, his firm was in charge of producing working drawings for an additional 7 buildings on campus. In order to undertake such a large commission, Greene found it necessary to add partners to his firm. Edwin LaRoche became a partner in 1927 and George Dahl was made a partner the following year.
Greene was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1923 and served on the Committee for the Beautification of Washington D.C. and Environs as well as the AIA Standing Committee on Competitions. Greene died suddenly in 1932 during a trip to Chicago.

Partner of Edwin Bruce LaRoche

Partner of George Leighton Dahl

Archival Holdings

The American Institute of Architects Archives
Membership file may contain membership application, Fellowship nomination, related correspondence. Contact the AIA Archives at archives@aia.org for further information.
Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas
See holdings under Greene, LaRoche and Dahl

AIA Historical Directory of American Architects

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