Connecticut Building at the 1904 World's Fair, 1904

From Connecticut at the World's Fair, Report of the Commissioners from Connecticut to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904.

The Connecticut General Assembly voted $100,000 for the exposition, divided up as follows:

Exhibits:

Education -- $7,500

Shell-fish -- $1,000

Farm products -- $7,000

Pomological (fruits -- primarily apples and walnuts) -- $4,000

Dairy -- $2,500

Tobacco -- $1,500

Horticulture -- $3,000

Ceremonies and Dedication Week Festival -- $25,000

Connecticut Building -- $30,000

Furnishings -- $7,500

Commission expenses -- $3,000

Sundries (other items) -- $2,500

Building maintenance -- $2,500

If the entire building cost $30,000, then the $1,000 exhibit on shellfish must have been quite the show.

Missouri Building at 1904 World's Fair

From Centennial History of Missouri by Walter Stevens (1921); image is from 1904. The Missouri Building at the 1904 World's Fair was constructed of staff, a mixture of plaster of paris and concrete. The state buildings were on Government Hill, now the site of the World's Fair Pavilion (built in 1909 using proceeds from the Fair, and often mistaken as an original fair building). The Missouri Building burned and was demolished in November 1904.

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