In 1886 William Albert Slater, the son of a wealthy Norwich industrialist, offered to memorialize his father, John Fox Slater, with a new building at the Norwich Free Academy. He chose noted Worcester, Massachusetts architect, Stephen C. Earle, to create a distinctive design. To many, the Slater Memorial was, and remains, Earle's finest work. Its design is Romanesque Revival in what has become...
The museum features a wide variety of art, including over 150 plaster casts of world famous sculpture. Also, Early American Rooms, American Paintings, 17th - 20th C. African, Oriental and European Art.