Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — CALIFORNIA’S BUILDING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CALIFORNIA’S BUILDING.

It* Design Will Indicate the Pacific Coast of the Paat and Present. According to the design accepted, the California building will be characteristic of the great Pacific coast

State, picturing in its exterior the California of the Padres and in its interior the California of to-day. While the architect has closely followed the old mission style, he has interjected enough of the more ornate Moorish to relieve the somewhat somber effect of the old churches, and he gives the required light and roominess. Therefore there is a charming simplicity of detail. Outside there will be a clear story with a great, Hat central dome as the crowning feature and roof garden to heighten the semi-tropical appear"ance. From the ground to the eaves will be fifty feet and to the highest point of the roof proper sixty-five feet, while the elevation of the dome will be eighty feet. Those portions of the roof not devoted to the garden will be closely copied after the quaint adobe buildings of the early Spanish settlements, with genuine earthenware tiles, deep red in color, semicylindrical and overlapping. The dome and middleportions will be tiled with iron plates curled and shaped like the original roofing. The material of the walls is to be wood, treated with some sort of cement and worked into a close imitation of the yellow-ish-gray adobe of the old days. On the four Corners and flanking the dome will be towers designed after tiie mission belfries and in them will be swun'g some of the old Spanish bells which have outlived, the Padres and their crumbling churches.

CALIFORNIA'S FAIR BUILDING.