Virginia
 Virginia State Building | |
| Construction Cost | $17,000 (equivalent to $512,707 in 2021) |
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Virginia is represented among the State buildings on the World's Fair by a reproduction of Monticello (Little Mountain), the home of the President who directed the purchase of Louisiana. The building covered an area of 113 by 99 feet. It had a picturesque site off the Plateau of States leading from the Palace of Fine Arts to the Foreign Buildings.
Etymology
Before the Fair
Description
Mr. Jefferson was an enthusiastic student of architecture, and an amateur draughtsman, who brought back from his foreign tours many studies of famous old buildings.
It contained a life size statue of the Jefferson, contributed by the University he founded.
Virginia had exhibits in Agriculture which included one of tobacco, which featured an Indian maiden standing on a pedestal 23 feet high and holding in her outstretched hand a bundle of tobacco.
The Forestry, Fish, and Game exhibit included: 28 by 30" transparencies, they were used to illustrate forest scenes.
In The Mines palace, there were award -winning exhibits that included- ores of gold, silver, lead, iron, asbestos, kaolin, mica, clays, zinc, manganese, talc, etc., while exhibits of marble, rough and sculptured, together with cubes of building stones and mineral waters were displayed.
