American enterprise Burley's United States centennial gasetteer and guide . spaces at the corners of the building, having the naveand end transepts for two of their sides, will be roofed and form valuablespaces for exhibits. Thus the ground plan of the building will be a paral-lelogram of 540 by 820 feet, covering a space of above ten acres. In itsimmediate vicinity will be the stock-yards for the exhibition of horses,cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc. This comprehensive system of building—viz., Main Building, acres; Art Gallery, covering acres; Machinery Building, cover-ing
American enterprise Burley's United States centennial gasetteer and guide . spaces at the corners of the building, having the naveand end transepts for two of their sides, will be roofed and form valuablespaces for exhibits. Thus the ground plan of the building will be a paral-lelogram of 540 by 820 feet, covering a space of above ten acres. In itsimmediate vicinity will be the stock-yards for the exhibition of horses,cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc. This comprehensive system of building—viz., Main Building, acres; Art Gallery, covering acres; Machinery Building, cover-ing 14 acres; Horticultural Building, covering acres; AgriculturalBuilding, covering acres—provides for the accommodation of theseven departments of the classification. There will be required, in addition to these buildings, a number of smallerstructures for the administration of the exhibition, all of which are nowbeing designed, with a view to their early erection. The preparation of thegrounds allotted to the Commission in Fairraount Park and the construe-. 678 BUBLEYS UNITED STATES
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