The Forrest City times., 1892-10-14
ARKANSAS AT THE FAIR.
Description of Our state Building at the
 Columbian Exposition.

1 Columbian Exposition. Last March the Arkansas Worlds Fair association called for competitive designs for state building.
 A number or designs were submitted by the architects of the state, and thai of Mrs. Jean Loughborough Douglas being given preference by the state board, her designs were accepted, and Mrs. Douglas was given the supervis- ion of the erection of the building while the working drawings were made by Mir. E. Kaufman of Chicago.
 The object of the designer was to carry out as far as possible the French ''rococco" style of architecture, as Ark ansas was originally settled by the French.
 The contract for the erection of the | building was let in August. for S12 ,o40, to the Heidenreich com aany of Chicago the time of completion being the 20th of November, 1892.
 The space assigned Arkansas by the construction department is 125x7o | feet and is just northeast of the Fifty l fifth street entrance to Jackson Park. 1 It lies between the sites of Minnesota and Florida, and is opposite the Kansas state building.
 l Dt hIhdiiSdo StdtC OuiiuiuS 10 v~A 66 feet, and has an elliptical entrance from large circular veranda, which runs the width of the building on the | first floor.
 Beside the entrance lobby 29xl6 feet the first floor contains a rotunda 30x30 | feet, lighted by a central dome; three rooms l5x15 feet on each side of the rotunda, five ot which will be exhibit rooms, with the registry room on the right of the entrance lobby. | Opening from the rotunda. by triple arches is the hallway, 1lx55 feet, with the stairways on each side of the arched entrance.
 At the rear of the building is the as- sembly hall, 25x65 feet, which is en- tered from the hallway through triple arches.
 Opposite this arched entrance there will be mantel 10 feet long of Ark ansas white onyx. while columns and vases of Arkansas onyx Snd marble will be placed in various parts of the building.
 On the second floor will be the ladies and gentlemen's parlors, committee rooms, and rooms for the president vice president, and secretary, all lead inp into the broad open gallery, which is over the rotunda, lighted by the skylight in the dome.
 The design follows classical models throughout, the detail orDamentation being entirely ''rococco." The general exterior covering will be plaster and ornamentation in staff, the whole oi the surface being afterwards tinted some light color. The interior will be tinted and decorated and all ornamen- tai staff work will be brought out in gold.
 The ladies of the state both members of the state board and of the Colum. bian clubs, which have been organized in all the large cities. of the state, will have charge of the rior.decoratior of the building, the ornamentation ol the grounds, etc.
 l The fountain of Hot Springs crystals which will be in the center of the TO- tunda, has a basin 10 feet Tn diameter and will be illuminated ty electricity The very artistic design for this foun- tain was drawn by Mrs. F. H. Els worth of Hot Springs, and the foun. tain itself will be presented to the Arkansas building by the ladies' Co lumbian club of that city.