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. III (1921), p. 334
At a glance
- Total cost about $50,000 including about $10,000 of furnishings; appropriation $120,000 (Todd; Condensed Facts gives $200,000).
- Dedicated April 1, 1915, with a telegram from President Wilson.
- Lounge about 100 ft long; relief map of the state 17 x 29 ft on the lawn.
Afterward
Not recorded; presumably auctioned and wrecked.
Where it stood
New Jersey Building (Trenton Barrack) stood at about 37.80576 N, 122.45037 W on today's map. The whole fairground over the city →
Sources
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (1921), ch. LVIII, pp. 317-318
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (1921), ch. LXII, pp. 334-337
- Official Guide of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), pp. 58-59
- Condensed Facts Concerning the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), state appropriation table