I think Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago may have had the same. A lot of zoos start out with people putting native animals in the local or the biggest city park. Then once that happened, then it was just a hodgepodge of miscellaneous things. The famous cowboy movie actor Tom Mix even had a bear in the zoo. They stuck a metal pole in the ground, the bear had a collar on, had a chain around his neck, a collar around his neck and a chain to the pole. And they exhibited him in Gage Park for two or three days when Tom Mix and circus were in town. Funny stuff like that. But to kinda sum up, there was an early park commissioner who built the new greenhouse and then took the old greenhouse and convert it into a monkey, what they called a monkey house.
