With its pilasters and flattened arches, the interior matches the exterior, and bronze and teak add a sleek finish.

WSJ: Fifty Has Seldom Looked So Good Bared | The Naked Museum | Sheldon Museum of Art | By Willard Spiegelman

The half-dozen columns supporting it recall those around the belfry outside, while a tall curtained arch framed by giant pilasters and entablature echoes the portico facade.

WSJ: Prim Grandeur, Elegant Geometries | Charles Bulfinch | Lancaster Meetinghouse | By John Wilmerding

These find perhaps their purest expression in the facade, where the simple white pilasters between the arches lead one's attention upward to the slender columns of the tower.

WSJ: Prim Grandeur, Elegant Geometries | Charles Bulfinch | Lancaster Meetinghouse | By John Wilmerding

The pilasters culminate in simple Doric capitals, and Doric moldings animate both entablature and pediment, while also carrying the cornice around the building and tightly tying its major blocks together.

WSJ: Prim Grandeur, Elegant Geometries | Charles Bulfinch | Lancaster Meetinghouse | By John Wilmerding

The Sheldon comes from the time of Johnson's greatest commitment to Mies van der Rohe and the International style, but Mies would not have liked the arched porticoes with their slender columns and pilasters that define this simple rectangular space.

WSJ: Fifty Has Seldom Looked So Good Bared | The Naked Museum | Sheldon Museum of Art | By Willard Spiegelman