Excerpt from Portfolio of Views
Manufactures building - from the southwest. Dimensions, by 787 feet. The floor area is about 31 acres, or, inc uding the galleries, over 40 acres. This is the largest building ever constructed under a single roof. The main architectural features are the four grand portals, built in the form of triumphal arches, and the great central hall, with the immense steel trusses forming an unbroken span of 380 feet and a height of 211 feet. The sculpture work on the portals and the corner pavilions is by Karl Bitter. The domes in the south portal were decorated by Robert Reid and J. Alden Weir, those in the east portal by Kenyon Cox and E. E. Simmons, those in the north portal by Walter Shirlaw and J. Carroll Beckwith, and those in the west portal by E. H. Blashfield and C. S. Reinhart.
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