New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-21
SITE PLEASES GOVERNOR.
State Building at st. Louis an
Colonial Stale.

The New-York State Building at the st. Louis
Exposition is on the State plaza, with the Illinois
and Iowa buildings for neighbors. 1t overlooks
Forest Park. To member of the New-York State
Commission Governor Odel declared the buildings
site to be more desirable than that of any other
State Missouri not even excepted.
The land falls off about twenty-five feet the
easrerIy end and this has been taken advantage
of bv the architect to place large fountain in
the FACADE of the terrace which the building
stands. This fountain typifes the Mississippi
River in the form of a river god controlling the
sea
The building proper stands on q terrace en-
riched with balustrades and vases, and unlike the
building proposed by G. L. Helms the State archi-
tect which Of the early Italian Renaissance
style, is Colonial in design and detail, and sur
mounted with low dome. One enters a large
hail. sixty feet square, running the full height.
arched and domed in the Roman manner, with
galleries around the second story. To the right is
a large assembly hall 50x60 feet. TO be used on
state occasions Dut is really made part Of the
grand hall Small assembly rooms are included in
the end OF this wing. To the left of the hall are
waiting and writing rooms, with retiring rooms
and toilets for visitors. The whole first floor is as
one room however. The second story contains
suitable rooms the commission and the secretary
and for general Offices The halls and ali Of the
pointments most generous
In the large hall it IS proposed to place four large
paintings in the lunettes. symbolizing the four
original ownerships-the Indians in one. Spanish,
pendentives Will filed with pictures embernatic
of the four original States included in the pur-
chase and their products and manufactures. The
external sculpture while not extensive viii receive
careful attention The fountain already described
and the four quadrigl Ranking the dome will be
modelled by representative sculptors and will typ
ify the march of progress.
The building will be OF staff One fact in
connection with the original purchase Will receive
proper recognition in the OF tablets and in
scriptions and that is that Robert r. Livingston.
OF Nev-Y York who was Minister TO France under
jefferson negotiated the treaty with Napoleon for
the Louisiana Purchase. He was empowered TO
negotiate for the mouth of the Mississippi River,
and from the purchase Of the whole tract fol-
lowed. and Monroe. afterward President, resigned
Governor OF Virginia TO carry special instruc-
tlons from jefferson to Livingston in regard to the
detail OF the transfer. These facts Will DE in
sC-ibed the building.
Other details OF interest will be the embodiment
corn as a motive. In fact, the architecture of the
whole is In sympathy with Jefferson's designs
seen In the University of Virginia and other
works OF which he the architect. The grounds
are 10 be made particularly interesting by New
York nurserymen, who win exhibit the many
varieties flowers and shrubs grown in the Stat
The work has been ln;rusted TO Clarence Luce. the
architect who designed the Hotel Renaissance.
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