Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-03-23
WHITE AND RED CITY
Colonial Architecture at the James.
town Exposition.
Native Plants for Decoration Indi aen
GUS Flowers Used Exposition Notes.

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The jamestown Exposition al chitec
turally will mark new era Ia great
celebrations.
Every previous undertaking of this
nature has had buildings more or less
HON ogeniOus and harmonious In ger /.
eral effect but none illustrating any
definite period.
With tue exception of the amusement
section known as the WAR Path, - the
name selected for it by the late Geper.
al FitZhugh Lee, who was the fist
President of the Exposition Comp any,
all of the structures on the grounds
will be modelled after the Colonial pat
tern or the closely related Georgian
style of architecture.
The Exposition grounds are well wood
ed and most of the trees will be left
standing. A great number of native
plants al flower bearing and evergreen
Tidewater Virginia. Tue shrubs and
plants and fruit trees will make a very
pleasing complement TO the red aud
white buildings of the seventeenth
century with their dull brick effects
and glistening Corinthian columns.
The large exhibit and Administra.
ton buildings some of which have
been already commenced, and all OF
which are we'll uuder way, will rem Ind
the Travelled visitor of the hugh Baro n
iai houses OF seventeenth century,
England, while the smaller buildings
will be replicas of some of our oldest
Amt rican homes or slight variation 6
from these models.
The central feature of the building
plan will be the Administration Hall,
unlike any one of The old State CAPT
tolls of the Colonies. and yet like most
OF them; the general plan being SINH
lar, though larger, aud more amplltied,
| while the details are totally distinct.
The long and large bricks will be seen
in the walls; the little panes of glass
will form the windows, the caps OF
which will be decorated with the
French Trellis work so affected thre e
hundred years ago ; while the column
ed front will support capitol undeco
rated by sculpture aud surmounted by
a dome ha5tened like those of the
French Renaissance, a style aft -cted
by all the early American dome build.
ers.
The possibilities of the ColoDiaI Sch
me have SO impressed The Com mission
ers Of-the states which have alreaO
si2nitied the intention of participating,
that without one exception, Lnese
various state committees have decided
to report or authorize the erection oil
Colonial bulldogs as headquarters foI
their respective commonwealtbS. This
will insure a second Colonial group fol
the states section, which at The James
town Exposition will be very impor
tant, since 1t will house some of The
most historic works and exhibits evel
gathered at one place III America.
All of The buildings to be erected by
the Exposition Company, and most OF
the state buildings, viii be ready b.
the first of the year, and all the trees
| about twelve hundred in number
which had to be moved for decoraI1v,
purposes, have been uprOoted and
transplanted in position. The native
shrubs which were collected under the
| direction of skilled BOtanist, vii
not be set out until the Spring. They
are now in nursery rows being cuitl
waited but even at the present tim
the work Of decoration is wei! enough
advanced to permit a visitor to get
good idea of what the decorative plan
will show next Spring when the Elk
position opens.