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CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS WORLD FAIRS AND THE DEMOLITION OF AMERICAN PALACES IN EARLY 1900S

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition – St. Louis The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which was actually held in St. Louis in April 1904, was more commonly referred to as the St. Louis World’s Fair.The 1,200-acre fairgrounds and its approximately 1,500 buildings cost millions of dollars to construct; this massive scale caused the opening to be postponed by […]