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and Brown of San
Francisco. Festival Hall - Robert Farquhar of Los Angeles.

Sculptors

(The numbers indicate the other works by the same sculptors to be seen
in the Fine Arts Palace.)
Adams, Herbert (3) Aitken, Robert (9) Bateman, John Beach, Chester
(1) Borglum, Solon H. (1) Boutier, E. L. Bufano, B. Burroughs, Edith
Woodman (4) Calder, A. Stirling (5) Cummings, Earle Ellerhusen,
Ulric H. (2) Elwell, Frank Edwin Flanagan, John (3) Fraser, James
Earle (7) French, Daniel Chester (4) Fry, Sherry (2) Gerlach, Gustave
Gruppe, Carl Harley, C. R. Humphries, C. H. (1) Jaegers, Albert (1)
Jaegers, August Konti, Isadore (6) Laessle, Albert (21) Lentelli, Leo
Longman, Evelyn Beatrice (4) MacNeil, Herman A. (2) Manship, Paul
(10) Newman, Allen Niehaus, Charles Patigian, Haig (7) Peters, C.
Piccirilli, Furio (2) Putnam, Arthur Roth, Frederick G. R. (12) Rumsey,
Charles Carey (8) Stackpole, Ralph W. (4) Stea, Cesare Tonetti, F. M.
L. Walters, Edgar (1) Weinert, Albert Weinman, Adolph A. (9)
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt (1) Young, Mahonri (9) Zimm, Bruno L.

MURAL PAINTERS

(The numbers indicate the other works by the same artists to be seen in
the Fine Arts Palace.)
Bancroft, Milton Brangwyn, Frank Dodge, William de Leftwich Du
Mond, Frank Vincent (6) Hassam, Childe (37) Holloway, Charles

Matthews, Arthur F. (14) Reid, Robert (3) Simmons, Edward

Materials of the Palaces

The buildings, as well as all of the statuary, are made of artificial
travertine, of a smoked-ivory tone.
Real travertine is found in and around Rome, especially at Tivoli.
It is a pure carbonate of lime, a creamy white deposit formed from
dripping water, in stratified form, with cavities and fissures lined with
crystals.
The Colosseum and St. Peter's at Rome are both made of this material.
The imitation travertine made with concrete, and used in the second
story of the Pennsylvania Station in New York in combination with real
travertine of the first story, was invented by Mr. Symmes Richardson
of the firm of McKim, Meade and White of New York. He also brought
the real travertine to America to have it used for the first time in a large
building, the Pennsylvania Station.
Mr. Paul Deneville of New York has most successfully made a plastic
travertine, composed of gypsum from Nevada combined with hemp
fiber and a coloring pigment, which has been applied to all of the
Exposition buildings, producing a most pleasing glareless background
under the sunny skies of San Francisco.
The roofs are covered with imitation tiles, since real tiles would be too
expensive for Exposition purposes.

Material of the Statues

The architectural statues - that is, those directly connected with the
architecture - are of smoked-ivory tone, so that you see them as part of
the architectural scheme.
Those far away from the eye, used as free statues, are, in the main,
golden.
Those nearer the eye simulate bronze, the special color that seems
worked out from the color of the blue eucalyptus.
All the statues of the Exposition palaces and courts are of travertine, the
material of which the buildings are made.

Machinery Palace

Architects - Ward and Blohme of San Francisco.
The palace is one of grandeur, dignity and great beauty.
The architecture has been inspired by such old Roman thermae as the
Baths of Caracalla, the Baths of Titus and the like.
The ornamentation is of the Italian Renaissance style, worked out on a
building that in form suits the needs of a great palace of machinery.
The gable points at the top of the western façade are such as one sees in
the restoration of the Baths of Caracalla.
The first and only other expression of this style in America is seen in
the Pennsylvania Station of New York City.
In the Transportation Palace can be seen a model of the proposed plan
for a new Union Depot for Chicago, with a similar gabled effect.
The three arches reflect on the exterior the three aisles of the same
portion of the palace within.
The great columns in front, and also in the vestibule, simulate Siena
marble.
The entablature carried across the faces of the arches supports
American eagles by C. A. Humphries.
Eagles are also seen at the corners of the Corinthian capitals. This bird
of freedom can be found all over the Exposition.
Notice that Mr. Jules Guerin, the great color wizard, leads you by
means of the blue ground of the capitals, the blue between the dentils,
the blue between the consoles to the blue sky above.
The principal lighting is by great clerestory windows - great windows
at the north and the south ends - also by skylights.
The building covers nine acres, and is the largest wooden structure in
the world. It is about three blocks long.
The statues