North Dakota's two-story building took the shape of its triangular lot. Two wings reached toward the front with a pavilion between them, the walls were "travertine" and the roof red tile. The Official Guide gives it as 65 by 85 feet, set among Italian cypress and lawns. All the state's exhibits were here: grain, corn, lignite coal, clays and potatoes. Todd felt he was in "some fairy palace of abundance, where no one could ever be hungry again, or cold for lack of fuel."
Its site was dedicated September 16, 1913. Will E. Holbein was the state's resident representative. On North Dakota Day, June 25, an ash was planted on the lawn. 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 vol. 3, ch. LXXXVI).