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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rd aspect is toward the Lake, but between the Plaza and LakeMichigan lie the clear watersof the Grand Basin, centralfeature of the Lagoon systemas the Plaza is of the land-scape system. The view lake-wards over the Basin passesfirst the McMonnies fountain,one of the most beautiful orna-ments of the Exposition, andthe electric fountains, withtheir sprays of rainbow-coloredwater. Then at the other ex-tremity of the Basin standsthe Golden Statue of theRepublic, with the peristyleand the Lake for a background.Beveled lawns and triumphalcolumns and noble bridgeswith sculptured ornament fillthe view, and it is enchanting.Here then, in the midst of allthese splendors, is the golden-domed crown of the Fair. In size the AdministrationBuilding is a noble edifice,though it is dwarfed l^o someextent by the giants aroundIt. It is 262 feet square,covers an area of more thanthree acres, and cost nearly half a million dollars. One of thenoblest achievements of modern architecture, It Is by many named
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WATER UNCONTROLLED, EASTERN ENTRANCEADMINISTRATION BUILDING. (Aar/ Bitter.) ADMINISTRATION. Hf as the gem of all the buildings of the Exposition. The building isin the form of four pavilions,each 84 feet square, one ateach of the four angles of thesquare of the plane, and allconnected by a great centraldome, 120 feet in diameter,and 250 feet high. The gen-eral design of the structure isin the style of the Frenchrenaissance, carried out in theacademic manner of the Ecoledes Beaux Arts. The firstgreat story is in the Doricorder, and of heroic propor-tions, surmounted by a loftybalustrade. At the angles ofeach pavilion the piers arecrowned with sculpture. Ex-ternally the design may bedivided as to its height inthree principal stages. Thefirst measures 65 feet, tocorrespond with the build-ings around it. The secondstaofe of the same heio^ht is acontinuation of the centralrotunda, 175 feet square, sur-rounded on all sides by anopen colonnade, 20 feet wideand 40 feet high, with columnsfour

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