Word: arthur
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Harvard is a gem in the eye of an architectural historian, and that could not be ignored by choosing just another architect. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, as the Fogg extension came to be named, was to be a building to house art, yet it also had to sparkle as an architectural work...
...hadn't been for the dream of Fine Arts Professor Seymour Slive, the idea to build a new art museum at Harvard might never have been conceived, but if it hadn't been for the generous support of philanthropist Arthur M. Sackler, Slive's dream would probably never have become reality...
...Arthur M. Sackler Museum here at Harvard is the fourth institution to bear his name, the other three being the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Arthur M. Sackler Health Communications Center at the Tufts University Medical Center in downtown Boston...
...those who dreamed of building an addition to the overcrowded Fogg Art Museum, the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum--after nearly ten years of planning that included a temporary cancellation--is nothing short of miraculous...
Originally, the plan was simply to renovate Burr Hall, but because of a number of generous donors, most notably Arthur M. Sackler, the museum staff decided in 1977 that they would aim for a new building, Slive said...