New Jersey copied the old Trenton Barrack, a barracks of the Revolution, in "travertine" and red tile: tall-posted galleries, quaint dormers, green blinds and "stern, uncompromising gables." The architects were Hugh Roberts of Jersey City and G. S. Drew of Trenton. The building wrapped around a hollow square where the flag flew. Two extra wings reached north to make a second square facing the bay.
Visitors entered a lobby from the west. On the east was a lounge about a hundred feet long, hung with portraits of Woodrow Wilson and Governor Fielder. There were a Princeton Room and a four-room upstairs suite kept for President Wilson, who never came. A carved Governors' Chair and a table stamped with every state seal stood inside. A relief model of the state, 17 by 29 feet, lay on the lawn outside.
The flag of the Union waved from a staff in the hollow square, and looked as though it thoroughly belonged there.
Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. 3, p. 334 (1921)
