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Article: Butler library could be built next door to Clarke House museum Village offer to buy land puts end in sight for quest for new quarters
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 12, 1999
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The Butler Village Board has offered to buy property next to the
Clarke House museum on which to build a library, a move that a
community group hopes will end its three-year, often frustrating
quest for a new library.
In a vote last week, the Village Board offered the Butler
Community Foundation $98,400 to buy property at 12808 W. Hampton Ave.
on which to build an approximately 3,500-square-foot library.
The Butler Community Foundation, which owns the historical Clarke
House next door at 12810 W. Hampton Ave., bought the property
originally intending to build a museum office there.
The non-profit foundation is renovating the Clarke House, which
will become a museum focusing on the ...