State Exposition Building
Contributors:
A. G. Bauer, architect;
William J. Hicks, contractor, architect;
North Carolina Car Company, contractor;
Samuel Sloan, architect
Dates:
1884
Location:
Raleigh, Wake County
Street Address:
Raleigh, NC
Status:
No longer standing
Type:
Public
Images Published In:
Catherine W. Bishir, Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury, and Ernest H. Wood III, Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building (1990).
Note:
The large, impermanent exhibition building, prefabricated of wood and encompassing 75,000 square feet of exhibit space, was built by the North Carolina Car Company for a state exposition that represented rebuilding and renewal after the Civil War.
