The Missouri State Building

The most northern of the group on the Plateau of States, stood directly south of the U.S. Government Building. It was 312 by 150 feet in area, and cost $125,000. To the predominating Roman type of architecture some purely American Features were added. The dome was a perfect hemisphere, gilded and crowned with the magnificent statue of Winged Victory. The central portion of the building was decorated with sculptured groups and single statues of great beauty. A rotunda 76 feet square was the principal interior feature, adjoining an auditorium and reception room seating 1,500 persons. The mantel in this room cost $1,000, and the center of the rotunda was an electric fountain gushing ice water, installed at a cost of $2,000. The building was equipped with a cooling system for use in hot weather. The cost of the sculpture with which the interior and exterior of the building were decorated was over $14,000. This building was destroyed by fire in early November, 1904 shortly before the close of the Fair.




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