Archer and his wife, the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, acquired 800 acres (3.2 km²) of land that would come to hold 61,000 square feet (5,700 m²) of exhibition galleries, a research library, a 167 acre (676,000 m²) lake, a five mile (8 km) shoreline trail with fourteen bridges, and over 35,000 maritime artifacts from around the globe.
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After acquisition took place, the first two years were devoted to creating and improving a natural park and constructing a dam to create Lake Maury, which was named after the nineteenth-century Virginian Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury, considered the "Father of Modern Oceanography".
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The west leg of the intersection is Avenue of the Arts, which leads to Christopher Newport University, the Ferguson Center for the Arts, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, the Mariners' Museum, and Lake Maury.