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| COLORADO'S BUILDING - This handsome and
characteristic structure was undertaken and finished before the wave
of financial disaster broke over the Centennial State, and, during
the darkest days of 1893, offered a hospitable place of assembly for
citizens who might there congratulate themselves that they had
preserved enough from the extraordinary panic to enable them to
impress the dignity of their State on all visitors to the Fair. The
area of this building was one hundred and twenty-five by forty-five
feet and the two towers rose to a height of eighty feet. The
structure evidenced the Spanish-Moresque influences of early Western
settlement, and its hanging balconies and triple arches presented no
mean appearance. The interior fittings were in onyx and marble. H.
T. E. Wendel, of Denver, was the architect, and the cost was
$35,000.
MAINE'S BUILDING - Among the State houses that presented a
solid and enduring front was the edifice erected by Maine, and the
purpose of so much granite in a temporary pavilion was to exhibit the
products of the State's quarries, together with the skill and
patience of her sons in dealing with a material so heavy and
refractory. The Maine Building held the extreme eastern wing of the
array of commonwealths, and the air of the lake which was near at
hand, was always defied on sharp mornings by the roaring crackle of a
wide fire-place where people often lingered, whether they were from
Portland, Maine, or Portland, Oregon. The architect, Charles S.
Frost, was born in Maine, and the irregular shape of the lot
determined the form of the building seen in the engraving. Cost,
$20,000.00. |
