STATE BUILDINGS—LOOKING SOUTH.—The city of State Buildings at the north end of the Fair Grounds afforded many interesting bird’s-eye views, of which one of the prettiest is given in the accompanying illustration. The view taken is from an elevated point at the northern extremity of the inclosed area, and very nearly at the center east and west. In the foreground, at the right, appears the log-built chalet of Idaho, beyond which is the Maryland Building, the gable of that of Delaware showing just behind it, and still further beyond the imposing structures of New York and Pennsylvania. In the distance, to the right, the tower of the Illinois Building appears, while the Art Palace forms the central background. Far in the distance, to the left, loom up the domes of the Administration and United States Government Buildings, while the ever-visible mountain of a Manufactures Building is conspicuous as usual. Continuing the circle to the left the Guatemala and other buildings are dimly visible in the wood at the east end of the North Pond, and then, just north of the east wing of the Art Palace, show the buildings of Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Connecticut, the New Jersey Building being the one nearest in the left foreground. In this view the observer looks directly over the Virginia Building, one of the chimneys of which is visible in looking down toward the street immediately in front A view from almost any elevated location in the northern part of the Exposition Grounds was good, because, from there, it was not suddenly cut off by some monster of a department structure.

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