The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore began with a gallery designed by William Adams Delano for Henry Walters, who bequeathed the collection and buildings to the city on his death in 1931. The text gives construction as 1905 to 1909 in one passage and 1904 to 1909 in another.
The article calls the original building palazzo style, with an exterior inspired by the Hôtel Pourtalès in Paris and an interior modeled on a Genoa Jesuit college, in stone. Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott designed the Brutalist poured-concrete annex, which opened in 1974. It gives no dimensions.
Kallmann McKinnell and Wood altered the buildings from 1998 to 2001, adding a four-story glass atrium, and the original building reopened in 2001. Admission has been free year-round since October 1, 2006. The article gives no hours.
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