Louisiana purchase exposition, St Louis, 1904 . Palace of Electricity. ELECTRICITY is the industrial life-blood of the newtime. How it has grown and is growing will be fullyexemplified. Located on the Grand Basin, and coveringan area of seven acres, the Palace of Electricity building is of the Corinthian type, the approximate costbeing $415,000. It is 525x750 feet with a court in thecenter. On two sides of the building are loggias which add pleasingeffects of light and shadow. There are numerous openingson the facades. An extensive balcony sweeps around four sides of building,suppl
Louisiana purchase exposition, St Louis, 1904 . Palace of Electricity. ELECTRICITY is the industrial life-blood of the newtime. How it has grown and is growing will be fullyexemplified. Located on the Grand Basin, and coveringan area of seven acres, the Palace of Electricity building is of the Corinthian type, the approximate costbeing $415,000. It is 525x750 feet with a court in thecenter. On two sides of the building are loggias which add pleasingeffects of light and shadow. There are numerous openingson the facades. An extensive balcony sweeps around four sides of building,supplying 100,000square feet of ad-ditional space. In the scheduleall kinds of ap-paratus and ma-chinery for gen-erating and usingelectricity are in-cluded, such asd 3- n a m o s andmotors, trans-formers, and ap- (23)
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