Smyrna times., 1904-04-13

T<HE architecture of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition is majestic
in the great ivory white exhibit
palaces, historical in the foreign
and state buildings, all-world and
unique in concession structure
The palaces are the varied produc-
lions of the leading architects Of the
United States, designed in obedience to
chaste, harmonious scheme. The
STYLE adopted is described as "a free
treatment of the Renaissance" Ac-
cording to dictionaries, Renaissance"
is the style which succeeded the me-
dieval and was based upon study and
emulation of the forms and ornaments
of the classic architecture of Greece
and Rome.
One of the architects defines the use
of the term "as a carte blanche to the
architects to produce a beautiful eff
feet by the use of any architectural de-
vice that ever gladdened human eyes,
from the pediment and peristyle of the
Parthenon to the minaret and dome Of
the Tai Mahal."
n The architect of the Palace of Educa-
4 ton surrounded that building with a
+ majestic Corinthian colonnade Anoth-
{ er architect made towers of the pedes-
tails that carry the browning sculpture
Of the Palace of Electricity. Another
architect designed for the Palace of
Varied Industries Spanish steeples and
semicircular colonnade unlike any
thing ever before done in architecture.
/ The architect used a dome roof and a
triumphal arch motif in the Palace of
4 Manufactures. Another architect broke
the sky lines Of the Palace of Liberal
Z Arts with quadriga crowned entrances
reaching as high as five story houses
EOther architects introduced into the
Palace of Machinery a German feeling
with forest of towers and a big slop
ing roof backing a sculpture decked
entrance way.
The supervising architect of the Unit
led States treasury introduced another
element of variety in the United State:
Government building, taking the form
Of big fat dome, an Ionic colonnad'
by caryatid attic. The same archi
teCt reproduced in the great Fish pa
wilton for the government Of the United
Estates, line for line, a Roman dwelling
house Of the Pompelian type.
In the Mines and Metallurgy Palac
the Egyptian obelisks furnish the mott
for the entrances. The cornice is wipes
but entirely by the substitution of al
pverhanging roof. In the Art Palac
n engaged colonnade Is employed t
Decorate a windowless museum facade
Festival Hall is made conspicuous an
distinctive with the largest dome o
Rarth The chief of design Of the FL
position adopted the dome roof, thre
nassive entrance arches and a bottl
Shaped pylon for features of the grea
Palace of Transportation. This sam
mind employed plain heavy piers
the Palace of Agriculture and demon
@trated the architectural possibilities
he farmhouse gable in the Forestr.
fish and Game building.
The artistic sense finds further plea
BIZ variety in the Tudor Gothic of II
Ozen permanent red granite building
Which form part of the Worlds Fa
settlement.
Architectural history may be read
be buildings of the states and foreie
governments. France reproduces Il
Srand Trianop at Versailles; German
be Imperial castle at Charlottenbur
reat Britain, the Orangery Of Ke
ngton palace, at London; Japan, t
Nastle Of Nagoya; China, the palace
Rrince Pu Lun. Belgium builds