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4 unusual facts about St. Louis Exposition


Edward Wagner

Wagner worked generating architectural sculpture at both the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and the St. Louis Exposition in St Louis in 1904.

Isabel Roberts

Masqueray is best remembered as the architect of the St. Louis Exposition and of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Isidro Ancheta

He was represented with 8 paintings in the Philippine Section at the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, where his painting titled A Victim of War received an Honorable Mention.

John Mellen Thurston

He was appointed as the United States commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition in 1901.


Clark Voorhees

He was awarded a bronze medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition and in 1905 received one of the National Academy’s three Hallgarten Prizes, honoring the best three oil paintings produced in the United States by artists under the age of thirty-five.

Florence MacKubin

Her life-sized portrait of Cardinal Gibbons was exhibited in 1903 in Baltimore and in 1904 at the St. Louis Exposition.

Patrick Bernard Delany

He was awarded gold medals at the International Inventions Exhibition in London (1885), at the Pan-American Exposition (1901), and at the St. Louis Exposition (1904), the Elliott Cresson Medal twice, and the John Scott medal of the Franklin Institute.

Smith's Building

He acquired a number of billiard tables from the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, and installed them on the second floor of this building.


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Alexandre Guilmant

His American achievements included a 1904 series of no fewer than 40 recitals on the largest organ in the world, the St. Louis Exposition Organ, now preserved as the nucleus of Philadelphia's Wanamaker Organ.

Charles M. Courboin

He was recommended for the position by organ virtuoso Alexandre Guilmant who played a recital at the church following his 'famous forty' concerts at the St Louis Exposition organ during the 1904 World's Fair.

John Mills Allen

Allen declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress and then he was appointed in March 1901 as United States commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition of 1904.

William George Bruce

In 1893, Bruce was manager of the city's educational exhibits at the Chicago Columbian Exposition; he also was manager of Wisconsin's educational exhibits at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, officially the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.