by Dave Guadagni

Answer for Last Week's Puzzler

Based on Frederick Law Olmsted's ideas and organized by Daniel Burnham, Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 featured work by R. M. Hunt, McKim Mead & White, and Louis Sullivan: a) Who designed the Women's Pavilion? and b) Which is the only surviving building?

Answer: 

a) Sophia Hayden, a member of the first class of women architecture students at MIT designed the Women' Pavilion of the Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893. b) The only surviving building from the Exposition is the Palace of Fine Arts by Charles B. Atwood.

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The answers to this week's puzzler will be published here next week.

Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects

Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2000, Dave Guadagni.

The Electricity Building of the Columbian Exposition.
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