Administration Building Combining Main Entrance and Exits

Dimensions: 50 ft. x 440 ft.

From the Atlanta Constitution, March 13, 1895 - "The design for the Administration Building and Gateway is one of the handsomest of the entire Exposition. The design, as it will be worked out, as shown by the sketches prepared by Mr. Gilbert, the supervising Architect, is a composite design of the old baronial castles - those strongholds of our ancestors in feudal ages. Each window, each door, in fact, the smallest details have been chosen with a view to furthering this idea. A suggestive glimpse here and there of what has already been seen, will recall a multitude of pleasant memories to the traveler, and to the less fortunate the view of these castellated turrets, those embattled ramparts, those ancient moats, and the old swinging drawbridges, will prove a source of keen enjoyment of profit."

From Bradford Lee Gilbert's "Sketch Portfolio of Railroad Stations and Kindred Structures".