
1893 World's Colombian Exposition
Photos from the Colombian Room
Museum of Science and Industry

Gateway Building

Palace of Mechanic Arts

The Electricity Building, designed by Henry Van Brunt and Frank Maynard Howe

Horticulture Building

Mining Building

Louis Sullivan's polychrome
proto-Modern Transportation Building was an outstanding exception to the
prevailing style,
as he tried to develop an organic American form.
He believed that the classical style of the White City had set back modern
American architecture by forty years.



The Ferris Wheel at the 1893 Expositionon

Memorabilia from the World's Columbian Exposition
1893

Posters and Publications

stereo view cards of the Ferris wheel

Columbian Medallion

Columbian Jug


the large scissors used to cut the ribbon on opening day


surviving statue
The Rookery

Rookery Building
Offices of Burnham during the
planning for
World's Colombian Exposition


Rookery entrance