The last building was, three major buildings, last building was built in 1929. So the buildings were not in great shape. The county couldn’t afford to upgrade them and had to decide what to do with the zoo and they couldn’t expand in Washington Park, because so many other activities took place in the park. So the Zoological Society decided that they really needed to move the zoo and they were, Otto Kuehn was the name of the first society president. His son was the Society president when they wanted to move the zoo. So they formed a joint committee with the county and the Society and the Greater Milwaukee and found a place where they wanted to move the zoo. George Speidel was the director at that point. He became director in 1947.
