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The Foreign Buildings While approximately 50 foreign nations and colonies exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, 18 countries erected buildings. Most of these formed a campus of Foreign Buildings on the northeast side of the fairgrounds, between the North Pond and Lake Michigan. The Japanese Ho-o-den stood on the north end of the Wooded Island. As with the State Buildings, these structures were architecturally diverse. Some were designed by architects from the nation represented while others were built [...]

The State Buildings The state buildings stood in a sweeping crescent across the northern end of the Columbian Exposition fairgrounds. Thirty-six states and one group of territories each sponsored a state building at the 1893 World's Fair. (The only states in 1893 that did not erect a building were Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.) These architecturally diverse structures often were built of materials native to that state, and several were replicas of [...]

The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition occupied 686 acres on Chicago's South Side. The main fairgrounds in Jackson Park occupied the area bounded by 56th Street on the north to 67th Street on the south and from Lake Michigan on the east to Stony Island Avenue on the West, and included the "White City" of great palaces along the Grand Basin. The Midway Plaisance stretched west from Stony Island Avenue to Cottage Grove Avenue, between 59th [...]

Notable People at the 1893 World’s Fair Among the millions of people attending the Columbian Exposition were countless famous or soon-to-be famous names. The list below is an attempt at counting. What constitutes famous? Having a Wikipedia page today is the reasonable requirement used to assemble most entries in this list. Posts for some people are provided as links in their name. A person’s role in the Exposition is identied in brackets: [A] = artists (architects, painters, sculptors, musicians) [...]

Timeline Events and Dates of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago The Columbian Exposition (May 1-Oct. 30, 1893) May 1893 Tuesday, May 1 (Opening Day) Tuesday, May 8 (Catholic Knights of America Day) Wednesday, May 17 (Norway Day) Tuesday, May 23 Wednesday, May 24 (Maine Day) Thursday, May 25 Friday, May 26 Saturday, May 27 Sunday, May 28 Monday, May 29 Tuesday, May 30 (Decoration Day) June 1893 Monday, June 5 (Denmark Day) Thursday, [...]