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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Fig. 5. The Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
1893, destroyed. From The World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago: C. D.
Arnold, 1893), pl. 15.
building was intended to stand only until the end of the Fair, so a super-
ficially impressive structure could be built with less money than a perma-
nent one. In addition, many materials and services were donated,
making the precise value of the building difficult to ascertain. Far from
being one of the largest state buildings, as originally planned, it came in
twenty-second out of a field of thirty-six state and territorial pavilions,
with an area of 6,756 square feet."
Like many other structures in the park, the Texas pavilion was not
ready when the Fair opened on May 1, 1893. The World's Columbian
Exposition itself lived up to the massive, worldwide publicity campaign
that preceded it. According to Montgomery Schuyler, one of America's
most noted architectural critics at the time, "It was a common remark
among visitors who saw the Fair for the first time that nothing they had
33 Daniel H. Burnham, The Final Official Report of the Director of Works of the World's Columbian Ex-
position, facsimile Edition (2 vols.; New York: Garland Publishing, 1989), I, 94. A plethora of mis-
information was published about the Texas State Building around the time of the Fair, probably
the result of confusion between the specifications of the different versions of the building de-
sign. This misinformation has been repeated in numerous accounts on the building and the Fair
through the years. This article appears to be the first reconciliation of varied and disparate pri-
mary sources with the photographic record. As such, it may appear to be in conflict with some
recent publications.July
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