In 1938, Frederick Pleasants, the assistant to the Director, asked Breuer to design some interiors for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. Breuer described covering the windows of the first room with a continuous panel of matte glass and opaque boards in front of the piers. Breuer hoped to make the glass cases "organic with the system of the window walls." Pleasants liked the designs but found them more expensive than anticipated. Although he asked Breuer to design a second room in the museum, neither room was executed.