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The exposition was originally scheduled to open in April, marking the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and ... Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition ...
Diagram of the grounds of the 1926 Sesqui-Centennial Exposition Sesquicentennial International Exposition logo. A group called USA250 is looking to hold another world's fair-type exhibition in Philadelphia in 2026 to commemorate America's 250th birthday. In April 2015, the Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a resolution to study the ...
Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of ...
The grounds are open daily except holidays, without charge. An admission fee is charged for the Japanese house. The Horticulture Center was built for the 1976 United States Bicentennial celebration, on the site of Philadelphia's earlier Horticultural Hall, built in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition. Its grounds contain:
Illustration from a Centennial Exposition guidebook (1876). The fountain's 100-foot-wide stepped base is of granite and in the shape of a Maltese cross . At the center is a 40-foot diameter basin featuring a 15-foot statue of Moses , who clutches the Ten Commandments with his left arm, holds his staff (now missing) in his left hand, and points ...
In 1975, Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo contacted the Consulate General of Japan in New York to inquire about the possibility restoring Shofuso for the 1976 Bicentennial Celebration. The Japan-America Society raised ¥55 million ($180 thousand at the exchange rate of ¥308/$) to fund a complete major restoration of the house and garden in June ...
The Centennial comfort stations are two brick buildings in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park originally built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition. [1] They were located south of the now-demolished Horticulture Building and used as public toilets.
The statue, described as "the largest work of its kind in the country", [2] was prominently exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was transported to Sharpsburg, installed atop the monument, and dedicated at the National Cemetery in 1880. The total cost of the monument was over US$32,000. [3]