Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Photos

The Crocker Art Museum's entrance occupies what was once the Italianate mansion of Judge Edwin Bryant Crocker, brother of Charles Crocker, one of the "Big Four" Sacramento families who started & financed the first transcontinental Central Pacific railroad. Judge Crocker acted as legal council for the CPR. Judge Crocker bought this Sacramento block in 1868 & commissioned architect Seth Babson to expand the existing house into a mansion. No expense seems spared in the decoration of the house. The art museum house & extensions now contain are strong in historical scenes of California & the West.

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Crocker Art Museum (1852, 1883-4) (216 O St.). Style: Italianate. Architect: Seth Babson. On National Register.

Entrance of Crocker Art Museum (former E. B. Crocker Art Gallery & Judge Edwin B. Crocker Home).

Italianate facade details of Crocker Art Museum.

Front door of Crocker Art Museum.

Ceiling details in Crocker Art Museum.

Decorative details in Crocker Art Museum.

Inlaid doors in Crocker Art Museum.

Statue at base of stairway in Crocker Art Museum.

Lighting fixture & ceiling decoration in Crocker Art Museum.

Upstairs gallery of Victorian era painting in Crocker Art Museum.

Yosemite Great Canyon (1871) by Thomas Hill at Crocker Art Museum.

Miners in the Sierra (1869) by Norton Bush at Crocker Art Museum.

Lake Tahoe (late 1800s) by Norton Bush at Crocker Art Museum.

Ivory carving of Faith, Hope & Charity (16th C) at Crocker Art Museum.

Peasant Wedding Dance (1624) by Pieter Brueghel the younger at Crocker Art Museum.

Love Chase (1869) by Charles Christian Nahl showing turbaned lovers on horseback at Crocker Art Museum.

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