Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance (1894) (14759413946)

Identifier: viewsofworldsfai00conk (find matches)
Title: Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Conkey, W. B., co., Chicago, pub. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago, W. B. Conkey company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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The Missouri Building- was of frame covered with staff and had an attractive front, the main•entrance surmounted with a domed tower seventy feet in height. The building contained thirty-twoTooms richly ornamented and furnished, Missouri manufacturers contributing largely to the decoration.The cost of the structure was $45,000.
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The Montana Building was of the Romanesque style of architecture and but a single story in:height and costing $16,000. It was surmounted by a glass dome twenty-two feet in diameter and thirty-eight feet high. Panels in pure sheet gold were among the decorations from this mining state. Thefigure of a gigantic elk appeared above tli2 entrance.