Of all the State buildings facing on Commonwealth Avenue, none was more
home-like or more popular than that of Kansas. Everybody was made welcome
at the Kansas Building. It was in every sense an Exposition home. Opening
from its great central reception hall were rest rooms for the ladies and
smoking and reading rooms for the gentlemen, post-office and check room
and the spacious offices of the Commission. In the south part of the building
was the emergency hospital, in charge of a graduate physician, and also
the day nursery where Kansas mothers could leave their children. The reception
hall was surrounded, at the line of the second floor, by a gallery, the
walls of which were covered with paintings by Kansas artists. The building
and furnishings cost $40,000. In almost every exhibit palace where the resources
of the states were displayed, Kansas held a prominent place. This was especially
true of the display in the Palace of Agriculture.
The mining exhibit included coal, lead, and crude oil, rock salt, brick
and gypsum.
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