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WHITE AND
REDCITY.
Colonial Architecture AT the
Jamestown Exposition.
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Norfolk. Va March s.-The James,
AVN Exposition INTELLECTUALLY will
..ork a new era in great celebrations.
rvery previous undertaking of this
nature has had buildings more or less
,,,oooeenious and harmonious in gen.
.ral effect but none Illustrating any
definite period.
With the exception of the amuse-
oent section known as the War
path" the name selected for it by the
late General Fitzhugh Lee, who was
the first president of the exposition
company, all of the structures on the
Grounds will be modelled after the
Colonial pattern or the closely related
Georgian style of architecture.
The exposition grounds are we'll
wooded and most of the trees will be
left standing. A great number OF ma
tive plants are flower bearing and ev-
throughout Tidewater Virginia The
shrubs and plants and fruit trees will
make a very pleasing compliment to
the red and white buildings of the
seventeenth century with their dull
brick effects and glistening Corinth-
ian columns.
The large exhibit and administra-
/, ton buildings some Of which have,
been already commenced, and all of
which are well under way, will remind
the travelled visitor Of the hugh Bar
onial houses of seventeenth century,
England, while the smaller buildings
win be replicas of some of our oldest
American homes or slight variations
from these models.
The central feature Of the building
plan will be the Administration Hall,
unlike any of the old State Capitols
OF the Colonies, and yet like most of
them; the general plan being similar
though larger and more amplified,
while the details are totally distinct.
Il
in the walls: the little panes of glass
will form the windows, the caps OF
which viii be decorated with the
French Trellis work so affected three
hundred years ago: while the column
ed front will support a capitol unde-
corated by sculpture and surmounted
by dome fiattened like those of the
French Renaissance. a style affected
by all the early AmeIn an dome build
ers.
The possibilities # the Colonial
scheme have so impressed the Com
ready signifled their intention of par
ticipating that without one exception,
these various state committees have
decided to report or authorize the
erection OF Colonial buildings as head
quarters for their respective common
wealths. This will insure second
Colonial group for the states section.
which at the jamestown Exposition
will be very important, since 1t will
house some of the most historic works
and exhibits ever gathered at one
place in America.
All of the buildings to be erected by
the Exposition Company, and most of
the state buildings, VIII be ready by
the first OF the year, and all the trees,
about twelve hundred in number,
which had to be moved for decorative
purposes, have been uprooted and
transplanted in position. The native
shrubs which were collected under
the direction OF p skilled Botanist, will
not be set out until the spring. They
are now in nursery rows being cult
waited; but even at the present time
the work of decoration is well enough
advanced TO permit a visitor to get a
good idea OF what the decorative plan
will show next spring when the expo
sition opens
Exposition Notes.
Recently the Governor OF New Jer-
sey accompanied by the entire New
Jersey State Commission visited Nor
folk and selected a site for the New
Jersey building. The commissioners
are Governor f. c. Stokes; Chief Com
missioner. c. E. Breckenridge; Alfred
Cooper. Harry Leeds. ID. Harry Chand-
Ter James Harper Smith, DR.. E. l.
Stevenson, Richard Herbert, James T
MacMurray. A. b. Leach Wallace Nj
Scudder, DR.. Thomas X. Reed
This was the first time that chief
executive of one Of the Common
wealths had honored the exposition
with visit. He was, however, close
" followed by Governor Roberts, OF
Connecticut, accompanied by Messrs
Samuel A. Eddy, w. j. Barber and
Thomas Hamilton, members of the
state commission. Two governors
within week was quite an honor.
Chief David Harris of the Catawba
Indians visited the South Carolins