The Newtown bee., 1893-09-15
Around the Preside.
THE WHITE CITY.
CONNECTICUT STATE BUILDING.

| l Though not as large and imposing as 1 some or many of the state buildings, it by no means does discredit to the Wood.
 en Nutmeg State. It furnishes a pleas.
 ant retreat and place of restfulness, to Connecticut people visiting the fair. They
 can say, as of DO other building or place,
 this is home. Executive Manager and Secretary J. H. Vail is there, and the embodiment of politeness, also MT Hub bard, associated with him in the care of the building. Nothing will be omitted or is omitted to make all feel perfectly at
 home.
 The edifice is designed to represent a typical high-grade residence of the state,
 with sundry additions and enlargements, such as circular windows in the north and south and circular piazza in the rear. It points to the east and is situated in the extreme northeastern section of Jackson Park. It Is but few feet from the intramural railway, station of which is near at hand. The ground area is p by 73 feet, including the piazza, ,and is two stories high. The exterior is weather boarded and painted white. The roof has five dormer windows and is deeked on the top. The deck is sur mounted with balustrade and from it's center rises flag staff. The main en- trance is through projecting porch two stories high, covered by pediment sup ported by heavy square columns. A bal cony runs along the entire front of the second story, supported by square col umns smaller than those of the high porch. The entrance leads into a large hallway and reception room, finished in the Northern Colonial style, with tiled floors, paneled wall and Dutch mantels. This grand reception room is 21 by AS feet and lighted from above. The first room on the right is the office. The sec- ond, kind of parlor, with Dutch mantel and old time furnishing. The first room on the left on entering is the postoffice and registering room. The next a spec ial room showing old time furnishing and high post bedstead. The third an old fashioned writing desk for correspond ence and some curios-
 In the rear of the hall is broad balus- trade stairway leading to the second story. On the broad stair is circular recess with settee for rest. The second floor is divided into several rooms. Those on the left as you ascend the stairs are living rooms and marked private. Those on the right, two of them at least, are furnished to represent the Windsor and Wethersfield rooms as occupied by Washington and Lafayette, when Wash ington visited New England during the War of the Revolution, and about the time that Arnold delivered up West Point into the hands of the British or tried to do so, and Major Andre was captured, condemned as spy and hung.
 The upper hall is furnished with large front windows which open on to the up- per balustraded, foored porch, or piazza. In the upper hall as we'll as the lower, large split rattan seated rockers abound, and afford comfort for the wearied, tired ones. There is good drinking water and all the toilet eonvenienees. In word, the Connecticut building, while not de- signed for exhibit purposes, is designed to meet the social wants of the Connecti- cut people who visit the fair Though occupying the northeastern angle of the park, it's sister states are not far away New Hampshire state building is the first on the right and Maine the second. Tn front situated directly on the shore of Lake Michigan is the Iowa state build- ing. AS one leaves 1t, by turning to the right or left, the state buildings present themselves, each asserting Its own lndip