To the north of the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building stood the U.S. Government Building and the Fisheries Pavilion. The former designed by the Treasury Department’s supervising architect J.W. Edbrooke was a relatively modest structure containing displays from various branches of American government. It was not considered among the Fair’s better offerings especially when compared to the Fisheries Pavilion just across the lagoon. Designed by Chicago’s own Henry Ives Cobb the Pavilion broke from the whitewashed Beaux-Arts standard of the buildings on the Great Basin and court of honor with colorful glazing and flags. The highlight for visitors however were the floor-to-ceiling aquaria within the building which contained hundreds of species of fresh and saltwater marine life.[1314

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43个美国州和23个国家都在本次展览会上展示了自己的建筑 ， 与一些大型建筑不同的是 ， 很少有建筑是通过Beaux-Arts风格来表达形态 。 项目的资金委员会也同样负责建筑的设计工作 ， 于是便有了风格各异的折中式建筑 ， 其中既有加利福尼亚展馆的西班牙殖民式风格 ， 也有佛蒙特州展馆的庞贝风格 。 在Wooded岛上甚至还有中世纪的日式建筑 ， 位于Olmsted的泻湖中央 。 [15