Smack in the middle of plans to make good on a last-minute bid to turn 535 acres of hills and trees into a northeastern Wisconsin university back in the 1960s: The Shorewood Country Club.
There was no getting around its clubhouse, pond, maintenance building, and 18 holes on 135 acres within the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus. It was a quarter of the university’s land. Its southern half occupied much of what was imagined as the campus’ core, where the administrative buildings, student and conference centers, and the library would sit.
The university “would have to occupy at least the southern portion almost immediately” for its development, the state’s Department of Administration said in the university’s first master plan from November 1968. Construction had already begun on the campus’ first phase of building classrooms and facilities. Classes were scheduled to start in the fall the following year…