The New York State Building was the first State building on the Esplanade west of the California Building. Designed by Charles B. Meyers, it was a modern classical building in the Exposition's "travertine", with broad porches and large Corinthian and Ionic columns. A garden of flowers and trees from New York surrounded it. It covered 77 by 248 feet. Todd says three stories; the Official Guide says four, with one floor of living rooms for the State Commission.
It held no exhibits. It was a clubhouse, with a café and large dining hall, writing and retiring rooms and a post office. The two-story assembly room, 53 by 77 feet, had a minstrel gallery at one end and an organ loft at the other. A clock in the vestibule showed New York time. Some 20,000 people visited it on Opening Day, and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst was its official hostess.
