Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings (1936--1937) (district)
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N 32° 46.904 W 096° 45.883
14S E 709345 N 3629301
Designated a National Historic Landmark, Fair Park has the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States and is the only unaltered pre-1950s World's Fair site in the nation.
Waymark Code: WM3AQX
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/06/2008
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Also known as Fair Park and Site of Texas State Fairs 1886-now, this Historic District in Dallas is bounded by Texas and Pacific RR, Pennsylvania, Second, and Parry Avenues.
From the Texas Historical Commission Atlas:
"Fair Park houses 30 structures that date from the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936 and its continuation, the Greater Texas Pan American Exposition of the following year. The site has been used for the State Fair since 1886; several of the buildings were built for the fair and altered to correspond with the Centennial architecture. The site is still used as the site for the Fair, and some of the buildings have since been altered to accommodate this use. A few structures have burned or been demolished. A few new ones have been erected. The Park, overall however, strikingly reflects the Exposition era. This extends to the landscape plan of the Exposition, which is also generally intact."
The Contributing Buildings include (from the City of Dallas Fair Park
website):
- Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park (Aquarium)
- Fair Park Band Shell (Band Shell)
- Centennial Building (Transportation Building, Chrysler Building)
- Fair Park Coliseum
- Cotton Bowl (Fair Park Stadium)
- The Esplanade (Reflecting Basin)
- Food and Fiber Pavilion (Agriculture Building)
- Hall of Administration
- Hall of State (State of Texas Building)
- Texas Discovery Gardens (Horticulture Museum)
- Magnolia Lounge (Magnolia Petroleum Building)
- Dallas Museum of Natural History
- Fair Park Music Hall (General Motors Building)
- Old Mill Inn (Flour Milling Industry Building)
- Pan American Arena (Livestock Coliseum)
- Parry Avenue Entrance
- Science Place I and Imax Theater (Museum of Fine Arts)
- Science Place II (Domestic Arts Museum)
- State Fair of Texas Building (Police, Fire, Hospital and WRR Building)
- Swine Building (Livestock Building No. 2)
- Tower Building (U.S. Government Building)