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 The Administration Building. 260 feetsqaure. cost $450,000. 
 
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 The U.S. Government Building. 345 x 4i5 feet, cost $ 4 oo,ooo. 
 
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Administration Building. 
 
 The gem of the group of Exposition structures is the 
 Administration Building. Its location, at the western end of 
 the great court, makes it the most conspicuous building on the 
 site, and the glitter of its great dome of gold will attract the 
 gaze of all for miles around. 
 
 This magnificent building covers an area of 250 feet square, 
 or 4.2 acres. In other dimensions it is as follows : Height 
 of outer dome, 264 feet. Height of inner dome, 220 feet. 
 Diameter of dome, 120 feet. The four pavilions are 84 feet 
 square, and 65 feet high. The entrances are 50 feet high, and 
 50 feet wide. At the base of the dome, 130 feet from the 
 ground, is a promenade gallery 20 feet wide and 40 feet high. 
 The base of the dome is 30 feet high. The dome proper is 
 104 feet high. Cost, $550,000. Material, 3,250,000 feet of lum- 
 ber; 1,562,607 pounds of structural steel. 
 
 The general design of the architecture is in the French 
 Renaissance. The first story is of the Doric order in heroic 
 proportions, surrounded by a lofty bulustrade, and having the 
 great tiers of the angle of each pavilion crowned with sculp- 
 ture. The second story, with its lofty colonnade, is of the 
 Ionic order. 
 
 Externally, the design may be said to consist of three prin- 
 cipal stages. The first consists of four pavilions, which cor- 
 respond in height to the surrounding buildings, which are 
 
 sixty-five feet high. The second, which is of equal heigl 
 a continuation of the central rotunda, 175 feet square, 
 is surrounded by an open colonnade twenty feet wide 
 forty feet high, with columns four feet in diameter. This 
 onnade is reached by stairways and elevators from the 
 pavilions. The third stage consists of the base of the d 
 and the dome itself. 
 
 The interior of this magnificent structure will excee 
 beauty aud splendor that of the exterior. Between even 
 of the grand entrances, connecting the great rotunda anc 
 intervening pavilion, is a hall thirty feet square, giving a< 
 to the offices, and provided with great circular stairways 
 swiftly moving elevators. The interior of the rotutn 
 octagonal in shape, and the sides being formed by 
 immense arched openings, corresponding in size to the 
 entrances. The interior of the dome is enriched by 
 panelings, richly molded, and the panels filled with s< 
 ture in low relief, and by immense paintings. This don 
 one of the largest of its kind in the world. The corner p 
 ions are four stories in height, and contain the offices oi 
 various officials aud departments of the administration 
 and police, ambulance, physician and pharmacy, foreign ii 
 mation bureau, post office, bank, committee rooms, 
 including all departments of the Exposition. 
 
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 The Manufactures & Liberal Arts Building. 781 x 1687 feet. 
 
 COVERS 31 ACRES. COST S I.500.OOO. 
 
The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. 
 
 The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building is in the 
 Corinthian style of architecture and notable for its symmetri- 
 cal proportions. It is the largest building ever constructed. 
 It is the giant of the Exposition Buildings. In its ornamenta- 
 tion, female figures, symbolic of the various arts and sciences, 
 play a conspicuous and very attractive part. The long array 
 of columns and arches is relieved from monotony by the most 
 elaborate ornamentation. Gigantic designs, showing in relief 
 the seals of the different States of the Union, and of foreign 
 nations, also appear in ornamentation. The building occu- 
 pies the most conspicuous place in the grounds, facing the 
 lake, with only lawns and promenades between them. 
 
 Manufactures and Liberal Arts. — Dimensions, 1,687x787 
 feet. Hight of walls, 66 feet. Height of four center pavil- 
 ions, 135 feet. Height of four corner pavilions, 120 feet. 
 Height of roof over central hall, 245.6 feet. Height of truss 
 over central hall, 211 feet. Height clear, from the floor, 
 201 feet. Span of truss, 380 feet. Span in the clear, 352 
 feet. Width of truss at base, 14 feet ; at hip, 30 feet ; at 
 apex, 10 feet. Weight of truss, 300,000 pounds, with purlines, 
 400,000 pounds. Ground area of building, 30.47 acres. Floor 
 area, including galleries, 44 acres. Cost, $1,500,000. Material, 
 17,000,000 feet of lumber ; 12,000,000 pounds of steel in trusses 
 of central hall ; 2,000,000 pounds of iron in roof of nave. 
 
 The building is rectangular in form, and the interior is 
 
 divided into a great central hall, 3S0X i,2So feet, which is s 
 rounded by a nave, 107 feet wide. Both hall and nave hav 
 fifty-foot gallery extending entirely around them. This bu: 
 ing is the largest in the world, and is the largest under r 
 ever erected. Its unequaled size makes it one of the arc 
 tectural wonders of the world. 
 
 The central hall, which is a single room without a suppc 
 ing pillar under its roof, has in its floor a fraction less tl 
 eleven acres, and 75,000 persons can sit in this room, giv 
 each one six square feet of space. By the same arrangem* 
 the entire building will seat 300,000 people. There are 7,00c 
 feet of lumber in the floor, and it required five carloads of n 
 to fasten the 215 carloads of flooring to the joists. There 
 eleven acres of skylights and forty carloads of glass in 
 roof. The iron and steel structure of this roof would build 
 Brooklyn bridges, while there is in it 1400 tons more m< 
 than in the Eads bridge at St. Louis. There are twenty-se 
 main trusses in the roof of the central hall, and it requi 
 600 flat cars to bring them from the iron works to Chicagc 
 
 The lumber in the Manufactures Buildings represents 1 
 acres of average Michigan pine trees. This building will 
 provided with 20,000 electric lights. Its aisles will be laid 
 as streets, and lighted by ornamental lamp posts, bear 
 shielded arc lights. The dedication ceremonies will be b 
 here, when the building will be arranged to seat 75,000 perse 
 
Machinery Hall. 500 xsso feet. cost $1,200,000. 
 
Machinery Hall. 
 
 This is one of the most magnificent looking structures in the park. It stands at the extreme 
 south end of the grounds, and is directly south of the Administration Building. 
 
 The building is spanned by three arched trusses, erected separately, so that the appearance 
 of the interior is much like three railroad train houses built side by side. 
 
 As all the buildings on this great plaza are designed to form a grand background for display, 
 the two facades of the building facing the great court are rich in colonnades and other highly 
 ornamental architectural features. Classical models govern the design throughout, the detail 
 being taken from the Renaissance of Seville, and other Spanish towns, as being especially appro- 
 priate for a Columbian celebration. A colonnade connects the Agricultural Building with this 
 hall. The Machinery Annex adjoins Machinery Hall on the west, and covers between four and 
 five acres, and increases the length of the building to nearly 1,400 feet, thus making it the second 
 in size of the Exposition buildings. 
 
 Dimensions, 492x846 feet. Height of roof trusses, 100 feet; width of span, 130 feet. Floor 
 area, 17.5 acres. Annex, 490x550 feet. Floor area, 6.2 acres. Cost of both, $1,200,000. Material 
 in both, 10,500,000 feet of lumber, 11,000,000 pounds of structural steel. 
 
The Electrical Building. 345 x 700 feet, cost $401,000. 
 
Electrical Building. 
 
 The Electrical Building is 345 feet wide and 700 feet long. It stands between the Liberal 
 Arts and Manufactures and the Mines and Mining Buildings, facing the grand court on the 
 south and the lakes and islands on the north. 
 
 The plan of the building is based upon a longitudinal nave 115 feet wide and 114 feet high, 
 crossed in the center of the building by a transept of like dimensions. The second story is com- 
 posed of galleries connected by bridges. 
 
 The exterior walls are modeled to represent continuous Corinthian pilasters, three feet six 
 inches wide and forty-two feet high. The total height of the walls is sixty-eight feet six inches 
 from the grade. There is an open portico along the entire southern facade. The details are 
 richly decorated, and the various parts of the structure are decorated with figures symbolical of 
 the purpose of the building. 
 
 The south pavilion is a hemicycle or niche, seventy-eight feet in diameter and 103 feet in 
 height, 1ftie arched entrance to which is crowned by a gable and attic reaching to the height of 
 142 feet. In the center of this niche, upon a lofty pedestal, is a colossal statue of Benjamin 
 Franklin, in commemoration of the important discoveries made by him in the field of electricity. 
 
Main Art Gallery. 320 x 500 feet, cost $670,000. 
 
The Art Palace. 
 
 The Art Palace is a pure type of that beautiful and classic style of architecture, Grecian- 
 Ionic. In size it is 500x320 feet, and is oblong in shape. A great nave and transept, 100 feet 
 wide and 70 feet high, intersect in the center, and above the point of intersection rises a -great 
 dome, 60 feet in diameter, to a height of 125 feet. 
 
 The transept has a clear space of 60 feet in width through the center, and receives light 
 entirely from above. On either side, twenty-four feet above the floor, are galleries twenty feet 
 wide. 
 
 The entire building is encircled by galleries forty feet in width, which make a delightful 
 promenade around the beautiful structure. Between these galleries and the naves are the smaller 
 rooms, devoted to private collections. On either side of the main structure are several single- 
 storied annexes 120x200 feet in size. 
 
 Broad nights of steps lead up to the four great portals to the main building, each of which 
 is ornamented with rich architectural sculpture. The walls of the loggia of the colonnades arc 
 decorated with mural paintings, and the frieze of the exterior walls is decorated with sculpture 
 and portraits in bass-relief of the masters of ancient art. 
 
 The general tone of color of the Art Palace is light gray, and the construction is fire-proof. 
 All light comes through skylights. The cost of the building is about $670,000. 
 
The Agricultural Building. 500 x 800 feet Cost $6i8,ooo. 
 
Agricultural Building. 
 
 Standing very near to Lake Michigan, and almost surrounded by the lagoons leading in 
 from the lake, is the Agricultural Building. The architecture is of the classic Renaissance style, 
 and constitutes one of the most magnificent structures in the group erected for the Exposition. 
 
 The north end of the building is almost on a line with the pier, upon which are erected the 
 heroic columns emblematical of the thirteen original States. For a single-storied building, the 
 design is extremely bold and heroic. The main entrance is sixty-four feet wide, and is flanked 
 on either side by immense Corinthian pillars fifty feet in height and five feet in diameter. From 
 each corner and the center arise pavilions, connected by canopies, the whole forming an arcade 
 around the top of the building. The cornice line is sixty-five feet above the grade line, and the 
 rotunda is surmounted by a mammoth glass dome i3o.feet high. The corner pavilions are also 
 surmounted by domes ninety-six feet in height, over which are groups of statuary, the design of 
 which is a group of three women, of herculean proportions, holding aloft a mammoth globe. 
 
 The building is 500 x 800 feet in size, the longest dimensions lying east and west. The annex 
 is 300x550 feet. The area of the main building is 9.2 acres, and of the annex 3.8 acres, the com- 
 bined area being thirteen acres, and the cost of construction $618,000. To the southward of the 
 main building stands a spacious structure devoted chiefly to a live stock and agricultural assem- 
 bly hall, in which will be located the bureau of information of that department. The first floor 
 is devoted to reception and waiting rooms for ladies and gentlemen, committee rooms, etc. The 
 second floor contains the assembly hall, with a seating capacity of 1,500 persons. The dimen- 
 sions of the assembly hall building are j 25 x 450 feet, and its area about 1.3 acres. Its cost is 
 $100,000. Such a building was never before erected at an exposition, and its construction shows 
 that every facility is being given to aid the live stock and agricultural interests. 
 
Women's Building. 200x400 feet, cost $ 120.000. 
 
Woman's Building. 
 
 Standing in the north-western part of the park, and separated from the surrounding buildings 
 by a liberal expanse of sward, stands the handsome monument erected in tribute to the women 
 of the world, the Woman's Building. Surrounded by luxuriant beds of fragrant flowers, and 
 rising against a background of stately oaks, the beautiful structure is indeed a monument well 
 calculated to fill with pride the hearts of those in whose honor it was erected. 
 
 The building is 200x400 feet in size, and the cost of construction about $120,000. It stands 
 on the shore of the lagoon, at a point where the water widens into a miniature bay, 400 feet in 
 width. A grand stairway leads by terraces from the building to the water. 
 
 The form of the building is that of a main pavilion, flanked by corner pavilions, connected 
 in the first story by open arcades in the curtain, forming a shady promenade the entire length of 
 the structure. The center pavilion is reached by a wide staircase leading up from the ground. 
 
 On the roof of each pavilion is a garden which will be covered with Oriental awning. One 
 will serve as a cafe, and the other as a tea garden. 
 
 A lobby forty feet wide leads into the open rotunda, 70x65 feet, protected by a richly orna- 
 mented skylight. The rotunda is surrounded by a two-story open arcade, giving the whole the 
 appearance of an Italian courtyard. The architecture of this building is noticeable for its 
 delicacy and the fineness of its detail. A harmony of grouping of details proclaims its designer, 
 Miss Sophia G. Hayden, a scholar of architecture. 
 

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The Casino and Music Hall. 
 
 This group is situated at the foot of the basin, the Casino being 
 connected on the north by the Peristyle. Each covers an area of 
 140x260 feet. The Casino will contain Restaurants and Resting 
 Rooms, while the Music Hall will be dedicated to that art which its 
 name implies. 
 

 Casino & Music Hall. Cost $210,000 
 
Naval Exhibit. 
 
 One of the most unique and interesting exhibits will be that of the United States Navy 
 Department, consisting of a full-sized model of the new coast-line battle-ship "Illinois." 
 
 The imitation ship is built upon piling in the lake, and has the appearance of being moored 
 to a wharf. It has all the fittings that belong to a ship, such as guns, turrets, torpedoes and tubes, 
 bombs, nets, boats, awnings, anchors, lovets, together with all appliances for working the same. 
 
 The structure is 348 feet long, 69 feet 3 inches wide amidship, and 12 feet from the water 
 line to the main deck. On the main deck is a superstructure 8 feet high, containing hammock 
 berthings, etc., and above that the bridge and boats. Fifty-four guns are included in the equip- 
 ment. The cost of the structure is $100,000. 
 
 The ship will be manned by a crew detailed by the Government, and the discipline and life 
 on a man-of-war will be shown. On the berth deck will be shown the various appliances that 
 make up a man-of-war outfit, including samples of clothing, provisions, and other supplies of 
 the sailors. The boat will have a full battery of guns of the size and caliber of the actual ship. 
 The guns will be made of wood, and covered in imitation of steel. All the uniforms of our 
 sailors, from 1775 to 1848, will be shown by janitors dressed in the costumes. 
 
Imitation U.S. Battle Ship. Cost $ 100,000. 
 
Hall of flines and flining. 
 
 This great structure is situated between the Electricity and Transportation Buildings, at the 
 southern end of the western lagoon. It is 350 feet wide and 700 feet long, and the cost of the 
 erection about $265,000. The main fronts are at the southern and northern ends, and overlook 
 the grand court and lakes and the Wooded Island. The entrances are massive arched ways, 
 richly ornamented in sculptural decorations emblematical of the mining industries. 
 
 At each corner of the building are large square pavilions surmounted by low domes. Between 
 the main entrance and the corner pavilion are richly ornamented arches, forming an open loggia 
 on the ground floor, and deeply-recessed promenades on the gallery floor, commanding fine views 
 of the court and of the lakes and island. These promenades are 25 feet wide and 230 feet long. 
 The main fronts are 65 feet high, and the main entrances rise to a height of 90 feet. There is on 
 the inside of the building a gallery 60 feet wide, extending entirely around the structure, thus 
 leaving a main hall 630 feet long and 230 feet wide in a single story 100 feet in height. 
 
 A great portion of the roof is covered with glass. The cantilever system is used to support 
 the roof, and the Mines and Mining Building is the only one, excepting in the dome, using steel 
 trusses to support the roof. 
 
The Mines & Mining Building 350 x 700 feet, cost $ 265,ooo. 
 
Fisheries Building. 
 
 The most picturesque and one of the niost pleasing of the Exposition buildings is the 
 fisheries Building. It stands almost at the head of the park, being between the Exposition 
 Duildings proper and the State pavilions. It affords a fine view of the entire lower end of the 
 Dark, and as viewed from a position further down, is itself a magnificent structure. 
 
 It consists of a rectangular main structure, having at either end a polygonal wing, connected 
 with the main building by a curved arcade or corridor. The extreme length of the building is 
 1,100 feet, and the width 200 feet. It is built on a banana-shaped island, and is subdivided to 
 :onform to the shape of the site. In the center of the building is the main Fisheries Exhibit, in 
 one of the polygonal wings is the Angling Exhibit, and in the other the Aquaria. The archi- 
 tecture follows the Spanish Romanesque, in agreeable contrast with the other buildings. 
 
 The Fisheries Exhibit will be especially complete and instructive. Not only w T ill it contain 
 every device and appliance since the time of Columbus for catching fish, but will also have a 
 living specimen of each and every variety of fish that can be obtained, and preserved and 
 prepared specimens of such as it is impossible to exhibit alive. The capacity of the Aquaria is 
 140,000 gallons. There is about 80,000 gallons in the salt water exhibit, which was brought 
 from the coast in a condensed state. 
 
 Dimensions, 165x365 feet. The annexes, connected with the main building b}' arcades, are 
 circular in form, and 135 feet in diameter. Total cost, $225,000. Total floor area, 3.1 acres. 
 Material, 2,000,000 feet of lumber, 600,000 pounds of structural iron. 
 
The Fisheries Building. 200x1.100 feet, cost $ 200,000. 
 
Horticultural Building. 
 
 This great building stands on the western shore of the lagoon, just south of the entrance 
 into the park from Midway Plaisance. In front will be flower terraces extending down to the 
 water, where a low parapet will be erected. A boat landing will be made in the center. 
 
 Horticultural Hall is 1,000 feet long by 250 feet wide, and cost $300,000. The general plan 
 is a central pavilion, connected with two end pavilions by arches 88x270 feet in area. These 
 courts are to contain beautiful displays of shrubs and flowers. The center pavilion is roofed by 
 a crystal dome 187 feet in diameter and 113 feet high, under which will be exhibited the tallest 
 palms, bamboos and tree ferns that can be procured. Each pavilion has galleries, and in the 
 galleries of the end pavilions are cafes. 
 
 In this building are displayed all the varieties of flowers, seeds, plants, vines, horticultural 
 implements, etc. The displays requiring sunshine are exhibited in the arcades, where the roof 
 is entirely of glass. Provision is made to heat such parts as require it. 
 
 The general color of the building will be a soft, warm buff. The Horticultural Building is 
 surrounded with extensive grounds, laid out in the most elaborate manner, and the exterior 
 flower displays will form some of the most attractive parts of the exhibition. 
 
The Horticultural Building. 250x1,000 feet, cost $ 300,000. 
 
Transportation Building. 
 
 This building is simple and refined in its architectural treatment, and rich and elaborate in 
 its detail, savoring much of the Romanesque. It is 250x960 feet in area, and cost $370,000 to erect. 
 
 The' main entrance to the building will consist of an immense single arch, highly embel- 
 lished with carvings, bass-reliefs and mural paintings. The whole is treated in leaf, and is called 
 the Golden Door. The balance of the architecture is in just contrast, quiet and modest, but very 
 broad in treatment. It is a continuous arcade, with subordinate colonnades and entablature. 
 There are several minor entrances, around which are grouped terraces, fountains, seats and 
 
 statuary. 
 
 The interior is treated after the manner of the Roman basilica. The roof is in three 
 divisions, the center one of which rises much higher than the others, the walls being pierced to 
 form a clear story. The cupola is exactly in the center of the building, and rises to a height of 
 65 feet, and is reached by eight elevators. 
 
 The Transportation Exhibit will contain everything, from a baby carriage or velocipede to 
 a monster compound mogul engine. The collection within this building will illustrate the 
 history of transportation by land, on the water, and in the air, from the earliest times to the 
 present day. Drawings and models will, of course, figure largely in this collection, but great 
 numbers of actual objects will also be exhibited. 
 
The Transportation Building. 256X960 feet, cost $ 370.000. 
 
The U. S. Government Building. 
 
 In this building are the exhibits by the U. S. Government, such as those by the Department 
 of State, War, Post Office, Treasury, Justice, Agriculture, Interior, the Fish Commission and the 
 Smithsonian Institute. The Mint shows every coin made by the United States, and the Bureau 
 of Engraving and Printing show samples of "paper" money. A life-saving station, completely 
 equipped, will be in operation on the lake shore. There will be shown a map of the United 
 States, 400 feet square, made of plaster, and on a scale showing the exact curvature of the earth's 
 surface and the height of mountains. There will be an exhibit of guns and explosives, and a 
 daily battery drill in the space east of the Government Building. 
 
 The following are some statistical figures of interest in connection with this branch of the 
 Exposition. 
 
 Dimensions, 345x415 feet. Floor area, 6.1 acres. Cost $400,000. Material, 4,000,000 feet 
 of lumber, 1,800,000 pounds of iron. Designed by the Government Architect, Windrim. Height 
 of dome, 236 feet. Diameter of dome, 120 feet. 
 

 
 
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