321:" tourist and activity site, and was the owner of the Smithville Inn restaurant. Noyes was also an avid art collector, and used his own personal collection to start the museum's collection. The Noyes family created their foundation in 1973 and began design of the museum in 1974, using funds from the sale of Historic Smithville. The site chosen was the former location of the Little Indian Day Camp; Fred Noyes purchased the site in April 1978 for $ 250,000. The new museum was designed by Paul Cope of Cope, Lippincott & Slifer, and unusually was built along the downward slope toward the lake, with rooms on various different height levels. Noyes invested around $ 4 million into constructing and endowing the new museum. It opened in 1983 at its Oceanville, Galloway site on Lily Lake, only 2 miles (3 km) away from Smithville. The museum was built directly next to the
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