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Identifier: viewsofworldsfai00conk (find matches)
Title: Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Conkey, W. B., co., Chicago, pub. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago, W. B. Conkey company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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The Washington Building commanded universal attention, constructed, as it largely was, of thegigantic logs of fir brought from the Washington forests. Two base logs were each one hundred andtwenty-seven feet long. A monster flagstaff, a single stick, two hundred and eight feet in height, stoodin front of the building.
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The West Virginia Building was in the Colonial style, representing a West Virginia residence, andwas two stories in height, with a pitched roof. All the exposed material was produced in the state.The ceilings were of ornamental iron work, made in Wheelmg. There were four large fireplaces, two.on each floor. The building cost $20,000

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