Louisiana purchase exposition, St Louis, 1904 . Lrouisiana States and Territories. COjMMONWEALTH A\ENUE—aptly named—runs between the Government and the Missouri buildings, for the latteredifice is the first of a splendid series of State structures which, on rising ground, stand sequestered amid the naturalforest trees—a collection of houses possessing high value as to architecture, historical association and State pride. The general section occupied by these buildings is called the Plateau of States. Commonwealth avenue winds up the hill, andruns into Colonial avenue, so named because of the m
Louisiana purchase exposition, St Louis, 1904 . Lrouisiana States and Territories. COjMMONWEALTH A\ENUE—aptly named—runs between the Government and the Missouri buildings, for the latteredifice is the first of a splendid series of State structures which, on rising ground, stand sequestered amid the naturalforest trees—a collection of houses possessing high value as to architecture, historical association and State pride. The general section occupied by these buildings is called the Plateau of States. Commonwealth avenue winds up the hill, andruns into Colonial avenue, so named because of the many buildings in colonial style which stand upon it. There are moi-e than forty buildings shown in this section, of which the States and territories carved out of the Louisiana Pur^chase are shown as follows: Montanas Building is between the pavilions of Michiganand West Virginia. It has four large and spacious approach at the front over a very wide flight of stairsopens into a vestibule decorated by means of columns, pilas
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