The State of Washington's building was of unique design. It contributed to a display of the State's lumber resources and at the same time supplied to its visitors a view of the main picture of the Exposition from the observation tower, 100 feet in the air, overtopping trees and adjacent buildings.
The building was built entirely of wood, the outside was of yellow pine
and the inside and the interior finished with the finer grained woods produced
by the State. A staircase of native marble was a unique feature. The building
was six stories high, towering 114 feet to the base of the flag staff, which
rose 50 feet higher. The structure was octagonal in plan, eight gigantic
diagonal timbers, each hewed from a single tree and 90 feet in length,
rose from the ground and meet in an apex at the observatory line. All the
floors were supported on these great diagonal timbers. On the five octagonal
floors were displays of Washington products. The building's outside measurements
were 77 by 114 feet, the structure was built at a cost of $18,000. It stood
near the following buildings: the United States Fisheries, the
United States Government, Kentucky, Oregon , South Dakota
and was directly up the hill from the Palace of
Mines and Metallurgy.
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