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Title: Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Merchants' World's fair bureau of information company, Chicago. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (The H. Sellschopp printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ctoria Kegia. The front of the terrace, with its low para-pet between large vases, borders the water, and at its centerforms a boat landing. The building is LOCO feet long with an extreme width of250 feet. The plan is a central pavilion with two end pavil-ions, each connected with the central one by front and rearcurtains, forming two interior courts, each 88 by 270 feet.These courts are beautifully decorated in color and plantedwith ornamental shrubs and flowers. The center of the pa-vilion is roofed by a crystal dome 18? feet in diameter and 113feet high, under which are exhibited the tallest palms, bam-boos and tree ferns that can be procured. There are galler-ies in each of the pavilions. The galleries of the end pavil-ions are designed for cafes, the situation and surroundingsbeing particularly adapted to recreation and refreshment.These cafes are surrounded by an arcade on three sides fromwhich charming views of the grounds can be obtained. 105 196 AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO CHICAGO AND
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Pill 1 WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 197 In this building are exhibited all the varieties of flowers,plants, vines, seeds, horticultural implements, etc. Those ex-hibits requiring sunshine and light are shown in the rearcurtains where the roof is entirely of glass and not too farremoved from the plants. The front curtains and space underthe galleries are designed for exhibits that require only theordinary amount of light. Provision is made to heat suchparts as require it. The exterior of the building is in staff tinted in asoft, warm buff, color being reserved for the interior and thecourts. The cost of this building is about $300,000. W. L. B,Jenny, of Chicago, is the architect. Midway between the Womans and Horticultural build-ings is the White Star Line Exhibit—A magnificnt showing ofmodels of ocean greyhounds and machinery used in facilitat-ing ocean passage. East of the latter is the Puck Building.—This structure was erected by the pro-prietors of Puck, the comic newspaper, pu

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