Evansville Museum at 411 SE Riverside Dr.--this is the outdoor sculpture garden behind the museum. Unseen here, the Ohio River is immediately to the left. This garden and fountain still exist, although some of the sculpture has changed. The pagoda style building next to the museum, at 401 SE Riverside Dr., (seen here behind the fountain) serves as the home of the Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Pagoda is also known as the Visitors Center. It was designed by architect Harry Boyle of the firm Brubaker, Stern, and Boyle and built by contractor Charles Kleiderer in Sunset Park in 1912. It contained a roof garden, cupola, bandstand, and public restrooms, according to The Postcard History Series of Evansville by Joseph Engler. A story in the Nov. 21, 1912, issue of The Evansville Courier describes the structure as an oblong pavilion open on all sides with an overhanging cornice. The roof is flat and is to be used as a roof garden and for seating during band concerts, the story says. The bandstand is located at one end of the building in a tower effect. The floor of the pavilion is elevated about four feet above the grade and is approached by broad cement steps on each side. The Sunset Park pavilion is built in Japanese style, The Evansville Courier wrote in a story published on Jan. 5, 1913. This was adopted, first because it will be picturesque; second, it will be bright and cheerful with enough color in the tile roof to harmonize well with the surroundings and will be artistic. Because of its concrete construction, the Pagoda is American, but whether it is actually of a Japanese or Chinese style is hard to say. Delegates from Evansvilles sister city, Tochigi City, Japan, who came to the Pagoda in April 2008, remarked that the style was Chinese. Its an American construction that is clad in an exotic motif but not necessarily one or the other explicitly, says Alan Higgins, an architectural historian with Cultural Resource Analysts Inc. Later, the Pagoda survived the famous flood of 1937 but then sat neglected, boarded up with plywood, until its restoration began in 1995. (http://www.evansvilleliving.com/city-view/articles/east-meets-west) It was conceived from a model displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.