Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The German Government Building was, in many respects, the most striking of its class on thegrounds. It cost a quarter of a million dollars and was a magnificent specimen of typical Germanarchitecture. It excelled not only in architectural style, but in its profuse and beautiful decoration andelaborate coloring. It was a credit to the German empire,. J Victoria House, as it was called, the headquarters of Great Britain at the Fair, was a picturesqueand expensive structure on the lake front, near the famous battle-ship. It was built in the styl
Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The German Government Building was, in many respects, the most striking of its class on thegrounds. It cost a quarter of a million dollars and was a magnificent specimen of typical Germanarchitecture. It excelled not only in architectural style, but in its profuse and beautiful decoration andelaborate coloring. It was a credit to the German empire,. J Victoria House, as it was called, the headquarters of Great Britain at the Fair, was a picturesqueand expensive structure on the lake front, near the famous battle-ship. It was built in the style of thehalf-timber houses of the time of Henry VHI. It was beautifully decorated and furnished and devotedchiefly to official uses.
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