The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-31
ME architecture of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition is majestic
in the great ivory white exhibit

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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-
tons OF the leading architects of the
United Sta ties, 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-
di9val 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 glaCdened human eyes.
FROM the pediment and peristyle of the
Parthenon to the minaret and dome Of
the Tai Mahal.'
The architect of the Palace Of Educa-
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 dome roof and
triumphal 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 German feeling.
with a forest of towers and a big STOP
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 n big fat dome. an Ionic colonnade
and classic pediment lifted in the air
by a cafyatid attic The same archi-
tect reproduced in the great Fish pa
vilion for the government of the United
States. line for line. a Roman dwelling
house of the Pompeiian type.
In the Mines and Metallurgy Palace
the Egyptian obclisks 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 windowless museum facade.
Festival Hall is made conspicuous and
distinctive with the largest dome on
earth. The chief of design of the Ex-
position adopted the come roof. three
massive entrance arches and q bottle
shaped pylon for features of the great
Palace of Transportation. I his same
mind employed plain heavy piers on
the Palace of Agriculture and demon
the farmhouse gable in the Forestry,
Fish and Game building.
The artistic sense 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
Antwerp townnal. Mexico has patio,
or inner court, in its buildings. Louisi-
ana reproduces the Cabildo at New Or
leans, where the formal transfer of the
Louisiana Purchase Territory from
France to the United States took place
New Jersey supplies replica of Gen.
eral Washington's headquarters at
Morristown. Connecticut presents the
fine Sigourney mansion at Hartford
and adds mantels and woodwork from
two other Connecticut mansion homes.
Virginia's pride is gratified in Month
| cello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.
Mississippi lids Beauvoir, the home
of Jefferson !. Wis. Most Of the other
states adopt the style of the big exhibit
palaces on their buildings. The tran
sition from the architectural dignity of
| the Plateau of States to the gayety of
the Pike is made by tie building OF
Texas. shaped like a five pointed star.
and by the wigwams Of giant trees
which Washington and Oregon supply.
Color is used sparingly ON screen
walls and in shaded places in the ex-
| hibit palaces. The facades are uni
form ivory white. with color on the
roofs, domes and towers. On Conces-
sions street, however, color is used more
freely, and the forms of the "art
nouveau" abound.