In 1869, Edwin B. Crocker, a wealthy banker and landowner,[REF] and Margaret Crocker began to assemble a significant collection of paintings and drawings during an extended trip to Europe just a year after their purchase of land on the corner of Third and O Street in the city of Sacramento.
While the Crocker Art Museum had undertaken a series of renovations and additions since it first opened as a public museum 125 years ago, the facility could not keep pace with the Museum's burgeoning collection and the growing population of Sacramento and California's Central Valley Region.