Identifier: historicalcommer00newy (find matches)
Title: Historical and commercial Philadelphia handsomely illustrated : with supplement of the World's Columbian Exposition
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: New York : Parsons
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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gs can be effected from the small boats ofthe park. The lir-*t terrace is the domain of the landscape gardener, and will he devoted to dowers, shrubbery andgravel walks. Some four feet above t.his terrace is the great paved platform serving as a base to the buildings.This platform is finished with balustrades, vases and statuary, and approach to it from the first terrace is gained atintervals bj monumental flights of steps. This view, looking as it does down the I a noun toward the great basin, represents a part of the grounds wherethe buildings are most thickly clustered, where distances are at the minimum, and where the perspective is leastex tended. Picture then the grand scale on which the scheme is being worked out, the care and attention that liasbei ii given to produce imposing effects and magnificent \ istas; and the enticement ottered to architects and artiststo create masterpieces. Surely the plan is incomparable, and its culmination will close an epoch in the history oiart.
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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. This building is the gem of all the architectural jewels i the Exposition. Constructed t material i lasl buttwo years, ii will cost $650,000. Although ii covers a space bul 250 feel square, yet it is one of the noblest achievemeats of modern architecture. It will occupj the mosl commanding position on the exposition grounds. Thebuilding consists of four pavilions, 84 feet square, one ;ii each of the four angles of the square of the plau, and con-nected by a great central dome, 120 feel in diameter, and 260 feet high. I the center of each facade is a recess, 93feet wide, within which is a grand entrance I the building. The first story is in the Doric order, of heavy propor-

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