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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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thesquare of the plane, and allconnected by a great centraldome, 120 feet in diameter,and 250 feet high. The gen-eral design of the structure isin the style of the Frenchrenaissance, carried out in theacademic manner of the Ecoledes Beaux Arts. The firstgreat story is in the Doricorder, and of heroic propor-tions, surmounted by a loftybalustrade. At the angles ofeach pavilion the piers arecrowned with sculpture. Ex-ternally the design may bedivided as to its height inthree principal stages. Thefirst measures 65 feet, tocorrespond with the build-ings around it. The secondstaofe of the same heio^ht is acontinuation of the centralrotunda, 175 feet square, sur-rounded on all sides by anopen colonnade, 20 feet wideand 40 feet high, with columnsfour feet in diameter. Thethird staore consists of thebase of the great dome, 30 feetihigh, and the dome itself, rising ingraceful lines, richly ornamented with moulded ribs and sculpturedpanels. This dome is coated with aluminum bronze, at a cost of
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