The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-26
architecture Of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition is majestic
in the great ivory white exhibit

"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
a chaste, harmonious scheme. The
style adopted is described as IA free
treatment of the Renaissance" Ac-
cording to dictionaries, circumstances"
is the style which succeeded the me-
dinval 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 gladdcncd human eyes,
from the pedimcnt and peristyle of the
Parthenon to the minarct and dome Of
the TAI Mahal."
The architect Of the Palace Of Educa-
ton surrounded that building with Il
majestic Corinthian colonnadc. Anoth-
er architect made towers Of the pcdes-
tails that carry the browning sculpture
Of the Palace of Electricity. Another
architect designed for the Palace Of
Varied Industries Spanish stccples and
a semicircular colonnade unlike any
thing ever before done in architecture.
The architect used a dome roof and Il
uiumphal arch motif in the Palace Of
Manufactures. Another architect broke
the sky lines Of the Palace of Liberal
Arts with quadriga crowned entrances
reaching as high as five story houses.
Other architects introduced into the
Palace of Machinery Il German feeling,
with a forest of towers and Il big slop-
ing roof backing a sculpture decked
entrance way.
The supervising architect of the Unit
ed States treasury introduced another
element Of variety in the United States
Government building, taking the form
Of q big fiat dome, an Ionic colonnade
and q classic pediment lifted in the air
by a caryatid attic. The same archi-
tect reproduced in the great Fish pa
vilion for the government of the United
States, line for line, Il Roman dwelling
house of the Pompeiian type.
In the Mines and Metallurgy Palace
the Egyptian obelisks furnish the motif
for the entrances. The cornice is wiped
out entirely by the substitution Of an
overhanging roof. In the Art Palace
an engaged colonnade Is employed to
decorate a windowless museum facade.
Festival Hall is made conspicuous and
distinctive with the largest dome on
eakfh. The chief Of design of the Ex-
position adopted the dome roof, three
massive entrance arches and a bottle
shaped pylon for features Of the great
Palace Of Transportation. This same
mind employed plain heavy piers on
the. Palace OF, Agriculture and demon,
.strated the architectural possibilities Of
the farmhouse gable in the Forestry,
Fish and Game building.
The artistic Ems finds further pleas
ing. variety in the Tudor Gothic Of the
dozen permanent red granite buildings
which form part Of the Worlds Fair
settlement.
Architectural history may be read in
the buildings Of the states and foreign
governments. France reproduces the
Grand Trianon at Versailles; Germany,
the, Imperial castle at Charlottenburg;
Great Britain. the Orangery Of Ken
sington palace, at London; Japan, the
Castle of Nagoya; China. the palace Of
Prince Pu Lun. Belgium builds an