Cleveland sculptor Herman Matzen imagined the future Cleveland Museum of Art as a series of separate buildings dotting Wade Park. Each would be in the style of the art it exhibited, such as an Egyptian temple filled with "treasures from the tombs of the Pharaohs." Matzen's vision remained just that, but the ultimate design of the museum's single building in 1916 did resemble Matzen's conception of classically designed structures. | Date: June 14, 1908 | Source: Cleveland Plain DealerDownload Original File
