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Buffalo Pan American Exibition 1901

Pan American Exposition 1901 demolished

What were the inventions of the Pan-American Exposition?
A central focus was the massive Electric Tower, which measured 410 feet tall and acted as a great light beacon. In addition to showcasing electricity, other technologies newly invented at the time, such as incubators for infants and X-ray machines, were on display along with many types of machinery.
What did the Pan-American Exposition highlight?
The Pan-American Exposition, staged in Buffalo, New York, presented in microcosm all of the trends, developments, innovations, and attitudes of the McKinley years. The great and colorful buildings along the Grand Canal, built in ersatz Spanish colonial style, symbolized American suzerainty over the hemisphere.
Liberal Art Building

Temple of Music
Seat capacity 2,200

Have you ever seen something like this?

Manufacturers and Liberal Art Building 
The Agricultural Building 
500 feet x 150 feet
Electricity Building
The purpose of this building was to show humanities most recent technological Mastery.
The color scheme are those of the Moors.
The Machinery and Transportation Building and the Electricity Building were adjacent to a landscaped Mall known before and after the exhibition as Amherst Street

The setting fornthe Electricity Building was the most pitoresque on the ground.

The Electrical building was the largest electrical exhibit ever gathered in United States.
Thomas Edison had a display with a new storage battery, a refinements of the phonograph.  The manufacturers of various forms of new arc and incandescent lighting  contended for recognition and commercial acceptance.
Buffalo Bell company had a display of central switchboard.

Pan America  Time Saver had on display a transformer that. Converted 11000 V to 1800 V yelding 5000 horsepower used in the grand illumination grounds at night.

The Electric Tower. 
Rhe colorate spread to a with of 255 feet at the base of the tower terminating at each end with pavilions.
The shaft of the great Tower was 80 feet square at the base constructed in steel framework, the Tower had a height of 410 feet from its base tonthe tip of the touch held by a 18 foot tallnstatue ofñthe Goodess of Light.
More than 40,000 lights showed through as part of the display illumination. 

The Tower had 2 elevators reception room offices restaurants and amusement halls.

The elevators brought tourists up to 252 feet. The rooftop was considered high in location and price.

It could have been a permanent Landmark but it was demolished because of the small minds of few people.

Justification fornthendemolition was that the Lan was leased from then Rumsey farmland and after exhibition the land had to be returned to its original state.

Now there are houses on that land so no farmland use.

Or it is possible that the buildings were older and some parasitar thinkers wanted the old world destroyed. 

A corner of the stadium.

The stadium accommodated 12000 people was originally conceived for 25000 peoples.
It was advertised horse show, grand automobile tournament. 

Entrance building 170nfeet × 52 feet
Running track 660 feet × 450 feet

And all was built in 2 years? 
The Propylea

Tiffany & Co exhibited precious stones, swords of honor and  Yacht trophy with $10,000, stainless glass featured in household decorations., various pictures including a mosaic of the Last Super, and house andntabke furnishing in colored and cut glass. Some of these objects might be found in New York collections and museums.

When the fair ended, the contents of the grounds were sold to the Chicago House Wrecking Company of Chicago for US$92,000 ($2.81 million in 2022 dollars).Demolition of the buildings began in March 1902, and within a year, most of the buildings were demolished. The grounds were then cleared and subdivided to be used for residential streets, homes, and park land. Similar to previous world fairs, most of the buildings were constructed of timber and steel framing with precast staff panels made of a plaster/fiber mix. These buildings were built as a means of rapid construction and temporary ornamentation and not made to last.Prior to its demolition, an effort was made via public committee to purchase and preserve the original Electric Tower from the wrecking company for nearly US$30,000 ($1.06 million in 2022 dollars). However, the necessary funding could not be raised in time.

The site of the exposition was bounded by Elmwood Avenue on the west, Delaware Avenue on the east, what is now Hoyt Lake on the south, and the railway on the north. It is now occupied by a residential neighborhood from Nottingham Terrace to Amherst Street, and businesses on the north side of Amherst Street. A stone and marker on a traffic island dividing Fordham Drive, near the Lincoln Parkway, marks the area where the Temple of Music was located.


The New York State Building, located in Delaware Park, was designed to outlast the Exposition and is now used as a museum by the Buffalo History Museum. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, it can be visited at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Nottingham Avenue. The Museum's Research Library has an online bibliography of its extensive Pan-American holdings.Included in the Library collection are the records of the Pan-American Exposition Company.[

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery was intended to serve as a Fine Arts Pavilion but due to construction delays, it was not completed in time.

At least one engine from the miniature railway that carried visitors around the fair was preserved. It is currently privately owned and operated in Braddock Heights, Maryland.

Link to the exibition.

https://www.loc.gov/item/00694344/

The first objects visible in this film, which was taken at night, are the glowing light globes that outline the buildings closest to the camera position. The camera slowly pans, encompassing the complete area of the exhibit buildings, and the outlines of all the buildings are clearly discernible. Edwin S. Porter maintained that this was the first motion picture taken at night by incandescent light in America"-- Early motion pictures. "A most perfect picture of the Pan-American Exposition buildings, including the Electric Tower and Temple of Music, as they appear at night. 50 ft."-- Edison catalog.