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architect: Robert E. Edis of London
dimensions: 6000 square feet
architectural style: unornamented structure with Tuscan columns supporting the verandas
notable exhibits: interior finishes made of native Canadian woods

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Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) was colony of the Great Britain in 1893.

architect: Herbert Frederick Tomalin of Ceylon
dimensions: 7400 square feet
architecture: Dravidian style, with an octagonal central structure and wings reaching to the north and south. This building was constructed in Ceylon and shipped in sections to Chicago.
notable exhibits: elaborately carved wood decorations, figures of Buddha and Vishnu, and a tea room

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architect: J. B. Mora
dimensions: 3360 square feet
architecture: Italian Renaissance style, two-story white structure with a central glass dome
notable exhibits: displays of history, fauna, products, and coffee of Colombia

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architect: James G. Hill of Washington, D.C
dimensions: 6180 square feet
architecture: a single-story structure with a large skylight on the roof, double casement windows, Doric pilasters flanking the main portal, and a piazza facing the North Pond.
notable exhibits: all of Costa Rica’s exhibits (except one in the Horticultural Building) were housed here and included displays of art, minerals, woods, birds, agriculture, and coffee.

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Also called the “India Building.” East India was a British colony in 1893.

architect: Henry Ives Cobb of Chicago
dimensions: 4800 square feet
architecture: frame construction covered with white staff with Indian style
notable exhibits: a marble shrine, Brahmin high priest Gobind Burshad, musical instruments, war implements

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Commonly called the “French Government Building”

architect: Motte & Dubuisson of Paris
dimensions: 43750 square feet
architecture: Two one-story, Renaissance-style pavilions connected by a semicircular colonnade formed a court having a bronze fountain. The northern “Lafayette pavilion” was a small-scale reproduction of the Apollo Hall at the Palace of Versailles.
notable exhibits: historical relics of the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin; displays about Paris

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Commonly called the “German Government Building” and not to be confused with the German Village attraction on the Midway.

architect: Karl Hoffacker of Berlin
dimensions: 14,560 square feet
architecture: With a basement of rock-face limestone, a first story of stuccoed brick, and top floors of wood and plaster, the Renaissance-style structure featured a grand triple-arched entrance, a high gabled roof, and a 180-foot bell tower.
notable exhibits: German publishers and paper-making displays; a chapel

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Commonly called “Victoria House” or the “English Building”

architect: Robert E. Edis of London
dimensions: 7200 square feet
architecture: a two-floor English Tudor house, with a lower story constructed mostly of terra cotta and an upper story of half-timber and plaster.
notable exhibits: Admission to Victoria House required an invitation to see the library and reception rooms made with wood furnishings that reproduced notable English estates.

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architect: J. B. Mora
dimensions: 12,320 square feet
architecture: Moorish-style square structure with a central open court with a nearby coffee pavilion
notable exhibits: art and antiquities; agricultural, horticultural, and mineral products; coffee and a marimba band

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Also called the “Haitian Building,” “Hayti Building”, and “Haytian Building”

architect: E. S. Child
dimensions: 12,400 square feet
architecture: Southern colonial-style house
notable exhibits: displays about Toussaint Louverture and Frederick Douglass; artwork; an anchor reportedly from Christopher Columbus’s ship.

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Also called “Australia House.” New South Wales was a British colony in 1893.

architect: Holabird & Roche of Chicago
dimensions: 4225 square feet
architecture: single-story structure with a wide portico supported by Doric columns
notable exhibits: artwork

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Also called the “Norwegian Building”

architect: Waldemar Hansteen of Norway
dimensions: 1500 square feet
architecture: reproduction of an eleventh-century Norse stave church made of Norway pine having a gabled roof with carved dragons that evoked the prow of a Viking ship.
notable exhibits:

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The Norway Building was constructed by M. Thams & Company near Trondheim, Norway, during the winter of 1892–93 and transported to Chicago. It stands today in Orkdal, Norway.

Also called the “Spanish Building.”

architect: Rafael Guastavino
dimensions: 7980 square feet
architecture: modeled after the historic La Lonja de la Seda building in Valencia, with buff sandstone walls, heavy cornices and parapets, and a square tower
notable exhibits:

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Also called the “Swedish Building.”

architect: Gustaf Wickman of Sweden
dimensions: XX square feet
architecture: The structure was built in Sweden, disassembled, shipped to Chicago, and reassembled.
notable exhibits: steel and iron, paper industry, domestic arts, educational displays

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Also called the “Turkish Building” and the “Ottoman Exposition Building” and not to be confused with the Turkish Village attraction on the Midway.

architect: J. A. Thain of Chicago
dimensions: 8000 square feet
architecture: The structure was based on a fountain in Constantinople, with exterior walls entirely covered with wood carvings executed in Damascus. A separate building to the north housed the Office of Turkish Commissioners.
notable exhibits: fabrics, mechanical and scientific products, Turkish rugs, gold and silver embroidery

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architect: J. B. Mora
dimensions: 2808 square feet
architecture: a one-story building of marble in three domed divisions, with a statue of Simón Bolívar surmounted the east pavilion and a statue of Christopher Columbus stood upon the west pavilion; a triple door
notable exhibits: All of Venezuela’s exhibits for the Fair were displayed in this building.

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