Pennsylvania State Building
The next-door neighbor to New York at the Fair, as in reality, is Pennsylvania. It is a stately edifice, surmounted with a clock tower, which reproduces the historic clock tower of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, with the old Liberty Bell. The first and second stories are of Philadelphia pressed brick
and the floors of native marble and wood, while the walls are ornamented with wainscot paneling
from Pennsylvania forests. The front entrance opens into a rotunda thirty feet in diameter and forty feet high. In the rear the exhibition room extends the entire width of the building, its walls ornamented with portraits of distinguished Pennsylvanians. Many rare documents and relics of historical interest are displayed, the grandest of which is the old Liberty Bell, whose brazen tongue proclaimed to all the world the birth of the Republic. There are statues of William Penn and Benjamin Franklin, and many historical portraits, maps and books. There are also allegorical groups of statuary, one indicative of mines and mining, and the other of science, manufactures and agriculture. The architect of the building was Thos. P. Lonsdale.
Pennsylvania State Building
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