The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, anchors the city's Museum District with a sprawling, fourteen-acre campus that spans eight decades of architectural history. You can identify the heart of the institution by the neoclassical columns of the Caroline Wiess Law Building, which opened in nineteen twenty-four as the first museum building in Texas. Designed by local architect William Ward Watkin, this original structure now serves as the historic center of an encyclopedic collection that grew from a small school art project into one of the largest in the country.