Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Virginia Building was an exact representation of the Mount Vernon mansion on the Potomac,so famihar to hundreds of thousands of Americans. This resemblance was carried into the interior, thefurnishing being made up largely of historic heirlooms. Among the relics was a copy of the originalwill of George 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 fla
Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Virginia Building was an exact representation of the Mount Vernon mansion on the Potomac,so famihar to hundreds of thousands of Americans. This resemblance was carried into the interior, thefurnishing being made up largely of historic heirlooms. Among the relics was a copy of the originalwill of George 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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