Plateau of States, State Buildings
Soon after passing into the Exposition grounds form the
southeast entrance, or shortly after leaving the Intramural cars at Station
14, the visitor came upon the pleasant view shown here. The point was just
where Colonial Avenue began, at Commonwealth Avenue, and the view is facing
west. Conspicious here, as everywhere among the State buildings, were the
noble trees that once graced Forest Park. The white staircase and columns
at the left of the picture were those of the Indiana
building, and a glipse of the Rhode Island
Building can be seen beyond that. Prominent at the right was the interesting
building that had been erected by Arkansas.
Connecticut's pavilion, low and simple in
its lines, was next, toward the west, and the great dome, with flying flag,
was all that one could see here of the breat building of Pennsylvania.
All of these states were creditably represented, not only in their individual
buildings, but in the displays made in the various exhibit palaces, where
their resourses and achievements were shown. Colonial Avenue extended on
toward the west from the point shown here, past the Nevada
building at the left, through the Gulch, or Outside Mining Exhibit,
and was then lost in the forest of trees at the south side of the grounds.
The following list is of the states that participated at the 1904 World's
Fair. I am currently working on a map of the "Plataeu of States"
which is where the majority of these structures were located. This map will
help you visualize how these buildings were situated, in some of the descriptions
there is references to street names, these names correspond to the streets
that were created on the fairgrounds in the Plataeu of States.
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