Colorado State Building
Architect: H. T. E. Wendell, Denver, Colorado
Area: 5,064
Cost: $32,000
Picturesque World’s Fair, An Elaborate Collection of Colored Views—Published with the Endorsement and Approval of George R. Davis, 1894
THE COLORADO BUILDING.—
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Colorado State Building
The Colorado building is in the Spanish renaissance. The whole exterior of the building is in staff of an ivory color, and in the salient features of the design profusely ornamented. The striking feature of the design is two slender Spanish towers, 98 feet high, rising from either side of the main entrance, on the east.
The tower roofs and the broad overhanging roof of the building are covered with red Spanish tiles. The building is 125 feet long, including the end porticoes, with a depth of 45 feet, and 26 feet to the cornice line. The front vestibule opens to the main hall of the building. On the second floor is the assembly room, extending the entire length of the building in the center. On the ends of this assembly room are a reading and a writing room, which open to the hanging balconies on the ends of the building, forming one of the most attractive exterior features. Broad, low casement windows open from the assembly rooms to the front and rear balconies, the front one extending between the towers, 24 feet, and over the main entrance. The rear balcony extends along the entire length of the building. Architect, H, T. E. Wendell, of Denver; contractor, W. J. Hill, of Denver; cost, $35,000.
Colorado State Building
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