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| Location | Washington University |
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| No. of Buildings | 1 |
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| Dimensions | 258' x 144' |
The Hall Of Congresses was leased from Washington University for the duration of the fair.
Before the Fair[edit | edit source]
Description[edit | edit source]
The hall of Congresses is one of the most interesting structures. In addition to the meeting rooms provided by this building, the Exposition places at the service of the hundreds of organizations more than forty halls ranging in capacity from the Coliseum with 12,000 seats down to the lecture room accommodating one hundred persons. There are days on which ten to fifteen organizations are in session.
Three kinds of Congresses and Conventions meet under the auspices of the Exposition. More than four hundred organizations, religious, business, professional, fraternal, trade and social, assembled in annual or biennial session.
The second class is a series of nearly two score international congresses similar to those usually held in association with a World’s Fair.
The third class or kind is known as the Congress of Arts and Science. This is an international congress of nearly one hundred sections. It is the intellectual culmination of the Universal Exposition. Its objects are To discuss and set forth the unity and mutual relations of the sciences, to review their historical growth, to develop their fundamental principles and to promote mutual sympathy and co-operative effort among specialists engaged in different fields of research.
After the Fair[edit | edit source]
After the fair, the building became the university library.
