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This three-story building on [[The Trail]] was an impressive 225 x 65 foot and held 40 rooms. | This three-story building on [[The Trail]] was an impressive 225 x 65 foot and held 40 rooms. opening day May 20,1904. | ||
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| Construction Cost | $65,000 (equivalent to $1,960,352 in 2021) |
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This three-story building on The Trail was an impressive 225 x 65 foot and held 40 rooms. opening day May 20,1904.
Etymology
Before the Fair
Description
The building was funded by 3,000,000 members of 50 individual fraternities. The building had an elaborately decorated rotunda, a reception room, a nursery, barbershop, a post office with telegraph, message station and telephone, a hospital ward, smoking and reading rooms, a 900 seat restaurant, and an information bureau. Two assembly halls on its third floor could hold 1,000 people each.
