Worlds Columbian exposition 1893
Portfolio of views
Forfatter: C. D. Arnold
År: 1893
Forlag: National Chemigraph Company
Sted: Chicago and St. Louis
Sider: 78
UDK: gl. 061.4(100) Chicago
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MANUFACTURES BUILDING.—FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
Architect, George B. Post, of New York City. Dimensions, 1,687 by 787 feet. The floor area is about 31 acres, or, including;the galleries, over 40 acres. This
is the largest building ever constructed under a single roof. The main architectural features are the four grand portals, built in the form of triumphal arches, and the
great central hall, with the immense steel trusses forming an unbroken span of 380 feet and a height of 211 feet. The sculpture work on the portals and the
corner pavilions is by Karl Bitter. The domes in the south portal were decorated by Robert Reid and J. Alden Weir, those in the east portal by Kenyon Cox and
E. E. Simmons, those in the north portal by Walter Shirlaw and J. Carroll Beckwith, and those in the west portal by E. H. Blashfield and C. S. Reinhart.