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Idaho Building

A simple two-story travertine building with end pavilions on the Marina, the first State building completed, and the only one with rooms for visiting teachers.

Idaho was the first state to start building, and Todd's second volume says it was also the first to finish. The Official Guide says the first to finish and dedicate, although Todd dates its formal dedication to March 25, 1915, a month after Ohio's. It was a simple building in good taste, two stories of 'travertine' with end pavilions, about 50 by 150 feet. It faced the Marina with a view of the bay and the mountains. It had rooms for visitors from Idaho, a motion-picture theater, and special accommodation for the state's school teachers, the only State building that offered it.

On Idaho Day, September 29, 1915, Governor Moses Alexander planted a fir. Its ceremonial tree was one of 33 planted at State and foreign buildings during the fair and moved to Golden Gate Park early in 1916 as the Exposition Grove (Todd III, ch. LXXXVI).

At a glance

  • About 50 by 150 feet; state appropriation $100,000.
  • Dedicated March 25, 1915, the day the Exposition itself was formally dedicated.
  • Idaho Day, September 29, 1915.

Afterward

Not recorded; presumably auctioned and wrecked.

Where it stood

Idaho Building stood at about 37.80531 N, 122.45419 W on today's map. The whole fairground over the city →

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