Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Minnesota Building was designed in the Itahan Renaissance style and was two stories inheight, of wood covered with staff. A sculptured group at the entrance represented Minnehaha andHiawatha. There were the usual exhibition hall, postoffice, and other offices. The interior walls werefrescoed in various tints. The cost of the structure was $30, The Missouri Building- was of frame covered with staff and had an attractive front, the main•entrance surmounted with a domed tower seventy feet in height. The building contained thirty-twoToom

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Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Minnesota Building was designed in the Itahan Renaissance style and was two stories inheight, of wood covered with staff. A sculptured group at the entrance represented Minnehaha andHiawatha. There were the usual exhibition hall, postoffice, and other offices. The interior walls werefrescoed in various tints. The cost of the structure was $30, The Missouri Building- was of frame covered with staff and had an attractive front, the main•entrance surmounted with a domed tower seventy feet in height. The building contained thirty-twoTooms richly ornamented and furnished, Missouri manufacturers contributing largely to the cost of the structure was $45,000.

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