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UNITED STATES. 



iron, which covers a space of 1,400 by 385 feet, 

 is 150 feet above the earth. A gallery 50 feet 

 wide runs around the outside of the building, 

 and 30 broad stairways lead up to it. The part 

 that is assigned to the liberal arts is ornamented 

 with sculptured reliefs representing the seals of 

 the States. Four archways, 40 feet broad and 

 80 in height, one in the center of each fa$ade, 

 give entrance to the main building, as well 

 as pavilions forming arched portals at each of 

 the four corners. The loggia surrounding the 

 building is 25 feet wide. The entrances are 

 ornamented with sculptures and mural paint- 

 ings, and the attic story above the side arches 

 with colossal figures of eagles. 



The machinery hall, which is 492 by 845 feet, 

 with an annex 490 by 550 feet, covers 17-J- acres. 

 On the lake front, separated by a basin from the 

 building for manufactures and the liberal arts 

 and having the machinery hall directly in the 

 rear, is the agricultural building, 500 feet by 800, 

 in one story 65 feet high, with domed pavilions 

 96 feet high at each corner surmounted by 

 groups of statuary, and connected by a covered 

 arcade and a central glass dome 100 feet in di- 

 ameter and 144 feet high. The hall of mines 

 and mining is 700 feet long by 350 broad, built 

 in the Italian style of architecture, with arched 

 entrances ornamented with sculptures, the sub- 

 jects of which are taken from mining industries. 

 A collection of the various kinds of marble is 

 worked into the facings. The roof is held up by 

 steel cantilever trusses supported by two rows of 

 steel columns 65 feet apart, leaving a space 115 

 feet wide in the middle and of half that width 

 on either side, running the whole length of the 

 building. The electrical building is in the shape 

 of a cross, having a nave 115 feet wide and 114 

 feet high and a transept of the same dimensions, 

 and is surmounted by many towers and pin- 

 nacles designed for electrical illumination. As 

 Jackson Park is approached by land from the 

 city, through Midway Plaisance, the building 

 directly facing the entrance is the horticultural 

 hall, which is 1,000 feet long and 250 wide. The 

 glass dome in the center is 187 feet in diameter 

 and 113 feet high, admitting of the exhibition 

 of the tallest palms and bamboos. At each cor- 

 ner of the central pavilion are smaller domes, 

 and connecting it with the two end pavilions 

 are greenhouses for the exhibition of plants re- 

 quiring sunshine, inclosing two courts 88 by 270 

 feet. Parts of the building will be artificially 

 heated for tropical plants. Alongside is the 

 women's building, designed by Miss Hayden, of 

 Boston, in the style of the Italian renaissance, 

 consisting of a central pavilion and two end pa- 

 vilions in two stories, connected by arcades. The 

 structure is 400 by 200 feet. A broad staircase 

 gives access to the central pavilion through 

 triple arches ornamented with designs in low 

 .relief. Around each pavilion in the second 

 story are open colonnades, and hanging gardens 

 will be placed there. Carriages and appliances 

 for locomotion and transportation will be ex- 

 hibited in a building 960 by 250 feet, with an 

 annex, the whole space roofed over being 16 

 acres. It is situated on the other side of the 

 horticultural building from the women's hall, 

 the three occupying the western border of the 

 main lagoon, while the hall of mines stands next 



to the transportation building, and next to that 

 the electricity building, which is separated from 

 the hall of manufactures and arts by a canal 

 giving access to the basin opening into the lake 

 through a sheltered artificial harbor. The lake 

 shore runs northwest, and the banks of the 

 canal and lagoon in the same direction, the 

 space between them and the shore being covered 

 by the main hall, and beyond that by the Gov- 

 ernment building and the grounds surrounding 

 it, to the north of which another canal enters 

 the lagoon from the lake. The agricultural 

 hall fronts the basin, having its longitudinal 

 faces at right angles to those of the main hall 

 and the electricity, mining, and transportation 

 buildings, while the horticultural and women's 

 buildings face east and west. Behind the agri- 

 cultural building is an annex, 300 by 550 feet, 

 and south of that a handsome hall, 280 by 440. 

 feet, for the assemblage of all persons interested 

 in farming and stock-raising, and for trying and 

 judging animals, which will be exhibited in pens 

 near by covering 30 acres or more. The dairy 

 building for the exhibition of the processes of 

 making cheese and butter and tests of milk is 95 

 by 200 feet. Next to that, on a basin shut in 

 from the lake by a breakwater, is the forestry 

 building, 200 by 500 feet. The building for the 

 exhibition of the fine arts, 500 by 320 feet, is, like 

 the rest, a temporary structure, but will be made 

 quite fire-proof. The central dome is 125 feet 

 in height and 60 feet in diameter. It is situated 

 at the north end of the park, on the bank of a 

 small lagooji, on the other shore of which is the 

 building for the Illinois State exhibit, and all 

 round are other State buildings. The Illinois 

 building is 450 feet by 160. The building de- 

 voted to the general administration (see colored 

 illustration) is between agricultural hall and 

 the mining and electrical buildings. Four pa- 

 vilions of the same height as these, 65 feet, are 

 surmounted by a structure of equal height and 

 175 feet square, forming the central rotunda and 

 surrounded by a colonnade 20 feet wide and 40 

 feet high, with corner domes at the angles, and 

 the whole is capped by an octagonal gilded dome 

 on a base 30 feet high. This is the most ornate 

 of all the buildings. The United States build- 

 ing, 350 by 420 feet, is topped by a larger oc- 

 tagonal dome, 150 feet high and 120 feet in di- 

 ameter. One half of the building is devoted to 

 the exhibits of the Post-office Department, 

 which has 9,000 square feet; the Treasury De- 

 partment, which occupies 10,500 square feet ; the 

 War Department, occupying 23,000 square feet ; 

 and the Department of Agriculture, occupying 

 23,250 square feet. In the north end the Fish- 

 ery Commission occupies 20,000 square feet, the 

 Department of the Interior 20,000 square feet, 

 and the Smithsonian Institution the remaining 

 space, while the exhibits of the Department of 

 Justice and of the Department of State will fill 

 the room on the east and west sides of the ro- 

 tunda. In the exhibit of the Treasury Depart- 

 ment, the Mint, the Supervising Architect of the 

 Treasury, the Bureau of Statistics, the Marine 

 Hospital, the Lighthouse Board, the Life-sav- 

 ing Board, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 will all be represented. The exhibit of the 

 Coast Survey includes a relief map of the 

 United States 400 feet broad, showing the cur- 



