Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-31
THE HANDSOME LOG CABIN
To Be Erected the ST. Louis Exposition Grounds the State Of Name

on the first floor is located a staircase
hall, the staircase to be constructed of
logs and poles, giving a very pic
turesque and attractive effect. Oppo-
site this staircase will be provided a
private Office for the commissioners,
and public Office where the visitors
may obtain information and will re-
ceive every attention from the atten-
dant in charge.
Beyond this section is a large room
z2 by 40 feet provided with a stone
fireplace, and this room will be devoted
to exhibits of the various industries
and natural resources Of the State.
On the left of the main hall in first
story, corresponding to the space just
described, will be provided the mems
smoking room and toilet rooms, with a
large and ample hallway connecting
the main hall with room % feet by AZ
feet this room to be fitted up as a COM
Portable reading room or living room
while here will be also provided ex-
hibits illustrating the resources of
Maine as vacation State. The walls
will he hung with fine photographs of
the picturesque bits Of forest and shore
peculiar to Maine.
The second story will take in both
wings of the building, connected as has
been mentioned by the gallery across
the main hall, and will be provided on
one side with large room to be used
as ladies' sitting-room, and connect
ed with which will be ample toilet
facilities. Off this room is a large and
pleasant loggia from which will be OBJ
tanned fine view of the grounds. The
remainder of the second story is de-
voted to storage rooms and apartments
for the use of the commissioners.
The building will be unique in char
acter. as it's motif is the log cabin,
and the walls will be constructed of
logs; the roofs covered with shaved
shingles.
1t is not to be. however, a simple
parallelogram but will be broken in
plan. with a central pavilion, and with
projecting pavilions at either end.
The masses have been finely arranged
and the whole effect will be most pleas
ing and attractive. the long roof lines
giving the effect of a low rambling
building, yet even with this effect,
ample height is obtained for the sec
ond story provided in the wings.
The logs for the building are to be
logs grown in Maine forests. The
chimneys which are all exposed are to
be built OF stone picked up in the fields
and pastures of Maine. The shingles
used upon the roof have been made in
Aroostook county, and in fact all parts
of the building are to be of material
grown and manufactured in the State
of Maine.
The logs will be brought to the build
ing site with the bark on, but as the
building is erected the bark will be
removed and the freshly peeled logs
will form the walls of the building and
the interior main partitions The effect
of color with the gray shingled roof will
represent as nearly as possible the
beautiful quiet color effects to be found
in the log camps in the Maine forests.
The work Of constructing the build
ing will be largely done by expert axe
men brought from Maine, who have
been accustomed to building the sport
ing camps So literally scattered through
The Maine woods and the axe is the
principal tool which will be employed
by the workmen upon the building
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