Fig. 543. — Administration Building. 



he walks down towards Lake Michigan in the most attractive and wonderful of 

 places — where electric fountains play, and countless pieces of elegant statuary 

 and massive architecture attract the attention, while electric launches in the 

 beautiful harbor offer delightful sails. 



Along the lake front, an excellent stone cement walk has been constructed, 

 and going along it southward, the Liberal Arts Building is on the left. Inside, 

 the innumerable list of packing cases and the elaborate courts promise wonderful 

 displays, which as yet it is safer to view from outside. 



Our engraving of this building of Corinthian style, gives one a very poor 

 idea of its immense proportions. The ridge of its roof is one hundred and fifty 

 feet high, and is covered with heavy, fluted glass, supported by gigantic iron 

 trusses. The whole encloses on area of 385 by 1,400 feet, so that, with its side 



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