“The Mines and Metallurgy” building at the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904. German-American postcard No. 4.

            The St. Louis World’s Fair took place from April 30 to December 1, 1904, and celebrated the centennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase.  The fair covered an impressive 1,270 acres (510 hectares) in Forest Park and Washington University in St. Louis.  It attracted a host of notable individuals, including Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Geronimo, Helen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Buffalo Bill Cody, Scott Joplin and John Philip Sousa.  More than 60 countries and 43 of the then-45 American states maintained exhibition spaces at the fair, which was attended by nearly 19.7 million people.

The St. Louis World’s Fair forever changed modern American cuisine – popularizing foods like the ice cream cone, hot dogs, hamburgers, iced tea and cotton candy.  Most of the buildings designed specifically for the fair were temporary structures and no longer stand today – with one notable exception.  The St. Louis Palace of Fine Arts, designed by architect Cass Gilbert, reopened as the St. Louis Art Museum a few years after the fair closed.

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