Temple of Fraternity
Public wiki for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
| File:Temple of Fraternity.png Temple of Fraternity | |
| 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.
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.
