114 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
HORTICULTURAL BUILDING AT PAN-AMERICAN 
EXPOSITION— 
TO BE HELD AT BUFFALO, N. Y., IN 1901. 
The three buildings for horticulture, graphic arts and forestry form a 
picturesque group. The largest of these, the horticultural building, stands 
between the other two. The forestry building is on the north side and the 
graphic arts on the south. Arcades connect the three buildings, form- 
ing in front a semi-circular court. Between the arcades the ground rises 
slightly to the level of the Fountain of the Seasons. 
The area of the horticultural building is 45,000 square feet. The graphic 
arts and forestry buildings each cover 30,000 square feet, and are similar in 
design. In plan, the horticultural building is square, with central lantern, 
rising to a height of 240 feet at the intersection of the four arms of a Greek 
cross, which includes in its angles four small domes. On the center of each 
facade is a deeply recessed arched entrance. 
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COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION Co, 
A GLIMSE OF HORTICULTURAL HALL, AT BUFFALO ExPOSITION. 
The graphic arts and forestry buildings have four corner towers, and on 
the east facade a vaulted loggia of three arches forms the main entrance. 
Above the red roofs of Spanish tile, numerous lanterns, pinnacles, and 
Venetian flagpoles, from which float gaily colored banners, add a festive 
picturesqueness to the sky-line. 
The broad white wall surfaces are ornamented with colored bas-re- 
liefs; arabesques of twining vines of fruit and flowers, among the branches 
of which are children and birds, decorate the numerous pilasters of the 
facades and arcades. Above the eastern entrance of the horticultural build- 
ing are two colored compositions representing Ceres, the goddess of the 
harvest, bearing in her arms a sheaf of golden wheat. Her chariot is 
drawn by three lions led by Flora and Primavera. 
The decoration of the graphic arts and forestry buildings is chiefly 
confined to the vaulted ceilings of their loggias, where the brilliantly col- 
ored decorations remind one of the famous example of the Villa Madama. 
