Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
The Ohio Building, designed by Albert Pretzinger, of Dayton, is a copy,
on a smaller scale, of the classic State House at Columbus. Containing
no exhibits except the relics shown by the State Historical Society, the
building serves the social side of Ohio's participation in the
Exposition. Its upper floor is entirely occupied by suites for the
Governor and the Commissioners.
The Indiana Building, designed by J. F. Johnson, of Indianapolis,
represents a type of modern Hoosier dwellings. It is of permanent
construction, of sandstone and brick with a tiled roof, and unique in
the fact that all of the materials used and all the furnishings are
Indiana products. State pride appears again in the library of 15,000
volumes, confined entirely to the works of Indiana authors and books
about Indiana. In addition to the building, which is wholly an exhibit,
Indiana is well represented in the Exposition palaces.
The Illinois Building, designed by State Architect James Di Belka, of
Chicago, is perhaps the best exhibit of the State at the Exposition. (p.
180.) It is a dignified three-story structure of the Italian
Renaissance. The Sculptured tablets of the facades represent the history
and progress of Illinois. The exhibits within are of unusual interest.
The Lincoln Memorial Room, made possible by Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber,
contains a great collection of photographs, letters and relics of
Lincoln, and many articles connected with his life. The valuable series
of films prepared by the Chicago City Planning Commission is shown in
the moving-picture hall. This building contains a fine pipe organ on
which frequent recitals are given.
The Wisconsin Building, designed by R. A. Messmer & Co., Milwaukee, in
the colonial style with wide porticoes, contains one of the State's best
exhibits in its interior finish of fine Wisconsin hardwoods. The floors
are all of maple and the paneled wall of birch. "Old Abe," the famous
Wisconsin war eagle, stands above the main entrance. Over the fireplace
in the reception room is a panel in relief, "The Progress of Wisconsin."
The building is used a headquarters for Wisconsin visitors.
The Iowa Building, Clinton P. Shockley, of Waterloo, IA., architect, is
a classic structure, finished, like most of the state buildings, in the
Exposition travertine. It does credit to the public spirit of Iowa
business men, who, in default of a legislative appropriation, supplied
the funds.
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