The Mission Building 
of products. The firms were the M. H. 
Birge and Sons Company, makers of 
wall papers, The Buffalo Pitts Company, 
makers of agricultural implements and 
M essrs. J. & R. Lamb, makers of stained 
glass and ecclesiastical furnishings. In the 
cloisters was placed machinery that would 
accomplish in a day the task of the mission 
laborer’s months. The workshop contained 
a miniature of a wall paper manufactory. 
In the chapel stained glass windows and 
church furnishings—modern as they were— 
completed the last feature of the rural estab¬ 
lishment, the part which was of first impor¬ 
tance to the Mexican Jesuits and Franciscans. 
The northern gateway leading to the centre 
of the court was the one most used by 
Exposition visitors. It led directly to the 
quiet precincts of the rectangular courtyard. 
Arcades formed two sides of this space and 
in one of the arches directly before the 
entrance was a wall fountain where the cock¬ 
atoos often disported themselves. Farther 
to the left three arches led to an inner court 
surrounded by a garden where, in original 
examples, would have been ranged the apart¬ 
ments of the friars, the workshops and school¬ 
rooms. Turning to the right one passed 
by the tower into the workshop. In Exposition 
days a crowd of interested visitors here 
watched the progress of wall paper designs 
from artists’ cartoons to the finished product 
ready for the walls. Boys spreading color 
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ENTRANCE TO THE WORKSHOP 
on a cloth pad, the printer dipping into the 
color a large wood block on which the design 
was engraved, and then printing it by stepping 
on the lever of a huge press was a picturesque 
—almost primitive—scene. 
Going farther and through the workshop 
one reached the chapel, in reality a western 
extension of the building. It could also be 
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THE NORTHERN GATEWAY 
entered by doors upon the north side towards 
the Stadium of the Exposition Grounds, and 
from the south or Canal side; for the Mission 
Building was well supplied with entrances. 
There were six in all. Simpler architecture 
was now left behind, and all within a small 
area were rows of columns along the walls 
and decorated beams thrown above from 
side to side. For an appropriate interior 
scheme early Christian forms had been taken 
by Mr. Charles R. Lamb because of their 
close historic precedence to Spanish work. 
They were elaborated with all the imagery of 
Byzantine ornament. A large stained glass 
window, designed by Mr. Frederick S. Lamb, 
occupied the centre of the western wall over 
the altar, and on each side of it were mural 
decorations by the same artist representing 
“The Church” and “ The State.” How- 
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