Chicago World´s Fair 1893

[Werner Presber]

Chicago World´s Fair 1893 - a photoset on Flickr

„The World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's  
Fair), a World's Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893, to celebrate the  
400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New  
World. Chicago bested New York City, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis,  
Missouri, for the honor of hosting the fair. The fair had a profound  
effect on architecture, the arts, Chicago's self image and American  
industrial optimism. The Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large  
part, designed by Daniel Burnham. In essence, it was the prototype of  
what Burnham and his colleagues thought a city should be. It was  
designed to follow Beaux arts principles of design, namely, European  
Classical Architecture principles based on symmetry and balance.“
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