On the hillside above the Palace of Mines
was the "New Kentucky Home," a highly ornate colonial building.
Broad, colonnaded balconies adorned all four sides, lending to the structure
an air of genial Southern hospitality. The great central reception hall
was open to the roof, with stairways leading to the two inside galleries
on the second and third floors. In the very center of the main floor was
the statue of George Rogers Clark, a famous Kentuckian. The walls of all
the building had been transformed into an extensive art gallery that displayed
Kentucky pictures, and on the two upper floors were displays of embroideries,
laces and other handwork from the famous convents of Kentucky. The most
interesting exhibit in the building was a room filled with old-fashioned
furniture, including the very desk on which Stephen Collins Foster wrote
the words of "My Old Kentucky Home." Kentucky was liberally represented
in the several exhibit palaces by displays which portrayed not only the
natural resources of the commonwealth but her progress in the arts and industries
and in commercial activity.
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