Altogether forty-three US states and twenty-three other countries contributed their own buildings to the Exposition. Unlike the larger main buildings these were less likely to be rendered in Beaux-Arts style. The committees in charge of funding these pavilions were also tasked with designing them resulting in an eclectic collection of styles ranging from Spanish Colonial in the California Pavilion to a reproduction of Pompeii by Vermont. There were even medieval Japanese structures on the Wooded Island that rose from the middle of Olmsted’s relatively naturalistic lagoon.[15

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然而博览会中最让人难忘的元素却与核心建筑无关 ， 即Midway Plaisance 。 虽然这座建筑最初的设计目的是教育功能 ， 但在后来却成为了博览会的娱乐中心 。 游客可以参观到开罗与维也纳的街头作品 ， 亦或是德国或爪哇村落的产品 ， 以及摩尔宫殿的蜡像 。 也许Midway最为著名的便是世界上第一座摩天轮 ， 但是乘坐费用却是博览会门票的两倍 。 [16