Agriculture Building

Architecture--New York(State)--Buffalo

Exhibition buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo

Pan-American Exposition (1901:Buffalo)

Pan-American Exposition (1901:Buffalo)--Buildings

On Exposition grounds

THE Agricultural Building is situated at the east of the
Electric Tower, the narrow front, 150 feet in length,
facing the Court of Fountains, and the principal front, 500
feet in length, on the Mall. This building is treated with
great simplicity and very few features. The principal
entrance is toward the Mall, facing the Manufactures and
Liberal Arts Building. Around this entrance is the greatest
amount of enrichment. The decorations are designed with
fruit, vegetables, and flowers, expressing the character of
the building

and the large corbels are in the form of heads of animals of the field. This idea is carried around in the decorations of the cornice. There is a loggia on the south side of the building, overlooking the Mall, formed of arches resting on single columns, with a ceiling of groined vaulting. The treatment of the exterior, like that of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, designed by the same architect, is Spanish Renaissance, adapted to express a spirit of exposition gaiety.

A technical drawing illustrating details of typical transverse truss construction. The diagram includes labeled parts such as beams, braces, bolts, and shoes, with multiple sectional views showing how the structural elements are joined.

Shepley, George Foster

Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official
Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to
the Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.:
David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with each.

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Pan-American Exposition--(1901:BuffaloN.Y.)--Buildings

Pan-American Exposition--(1901:BuffaloN.Y.)--Agriculture Building

Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901

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