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New Yoek at the "World's Columbian Exposition. 



The material which rendered possible this counterfeit of architecture 

 is known as " staff." It was invented in France about 1876, and was 

 first used at the Paris Exposition in 18T8. Its constituents are 

 powdered gypsum chiefly, with alumina, glycerine and dextrine. It 

 is mixed with water without heat and cast in molds in any desired 

 form. In molding it is mixed with coarse shreds of cloth, bagging or 

 other fibrous material to prevent its being brittle. Staff is water- 

 proof, takes paint readily, and its cost is one-twelfth that of marble. 



It is specially a matter of pride to New York that all of the 

 prominent structures in the vista of the Court of Honor were the 

 work of New York architects. The only exceptions were the 

 Machinery and Electricity buildings on the extreme southwest and 

 northwest corners. Not only that, but the designing of the court itself 

 and its chief features, the Peristyle, Colonnade, statue of the " Kepublie," 

 Columbia and electric fountains were also done by New York artists. 



The following data concerning the principal buildings are of interest : 



BUILDINaS. 



Administration . 

 Agriculture .... 

 Anthropology . . 

 Art Palace 



Dairy 



Electricity 



Fisheries 



Forestry 



Horticulture 



Leather and Shoe . 



Machinery 



Boiler House . . . . 



Manufactures 



Mines and Mining . 



Stock Pavilion 



Stock Sheds 



Terminal 



Architect. 



Richard M. Hunt, New York 



McKim, Mead & White, New York. 



Exposition officials 



Charles B. Atwood, New York 



Exposition officials 



Van Brunt & Howe, Kansas City. . . 



Henry Ives Cobb, Chicago 



Charles B. Atwood, New York. 



W. L. B. Jenney, Chicago 



Exposition officials 



Peabody & Stearns, Boston , 



George B. Post, New York 



S. S. Beman, Chicago 



Eicposition officials 



Exposition officials 



Charles B. Atwood, New York . 



Adler & Sullivan, Chicago 



Transportation . . . 



Woman's Sophia G. Hayden, Boston 



Thirty Other buildings — Casino, Music Hall, Choral Hall, 

 La Rabida, Indian School, etc 



U. S. Government 



Battleship, "Illinois". 



State and foreign build- 

 ings (apm'oximate).. 



Midway Plaisance 

 buildings (approxi- 

 mate) . 



Children's BuUding . . , 



W. J. Edbrooke, Washington., 



Size in feet. 



(500x800 

 ■1*312x550.5 

 415x355 

 1380x500 

 ■1*136x200 (2-) 

 94.1x199.8 

 345x690 

 (162.1x361.1 

 \ * 135 in diam- 

 ( eter (2) 

 208x528 

 250.8x997 8 

 150 X 625 

 (494x842 

 1 *490x551 

 86x103.6 

 787x1,687 

 350 X 700 

 265 X 960 



450 X 150 

 J 256x960 

 1*435x850 

 198.8x398 



351x421 

 69x348 



150x90 



Acres of 

 floor space 

 including 



4.5 



3.6 

 (4.8 



9.3 



\':^ 



2.6 



8 



4.3 



(17 



44 



8.5 



5.8 

 S5 



2.6 

 (9 4 

 18.5 



3.3 



16.1 



208.8 

 6.2 



15.2 



.3 

 240.1 



Cost. 



$436,500 



691,500 



200,000 



670,500 



30,000 

 413,500 



224,750 



90,850 

 287,000 

 100,000 



1,060,750 



75,000 

 1,600,750 

 266,500 

 185,000 

 310,000 

 300,000 



369,000 



138,000 



738,000 



88,017.000 

 400,000 

 100.000 



2,260,000 



1,600,000 

 30,000 



$12,297;000 



* Annex. 



The cost of the Paris ('89) buildings was $5,826,408. No reliable 

 figures on the cost of the Paris ('78) and Philadelphia expositions are 

 known,, as both fairs were rim at a great loss and no report made. 



