Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — NORTH DAKOTA’S BUILDING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NORTH DAKOTA’S BUILDING.

Plans Prepared and Presented to the Construction Department. Plans for North Dakota’s Building at the Fair have been presented to the construction department. The area occupied by the building is 70

by 50 feet. A space 46 by 21 feet has been left in front of the main assembly hall for a courtyard. This court is surrounded on three sides by the building and in front by a low stone wall. From this court the main assembly hall is entered through a large stone arch, on which is an elaborately carved panel bearing the coat of arms of North Dakota. The main feature of the interior is an assembly hall, the dimensions of which are 24 by 56 feet. This hall is spanned by four broad arched beams, between each of which is a wide window reaching from near the floor to roof. At either end of this room is a broad fireplace. Two committee rooms, each 10 by 22 feet, have been ar-ranged-at either end,of the audience hall. These rooms are connected with dressing-rooms. The walls of the main gable-ends are brick; otherwise, except a low stone wall about three feet high entirely around the buildings, the walls are of timber, filled in between with plaster panels. The entire building is given a picturesque appearance by low thatched roofs.

NORTH DAKOTA’S BUILDING.