Editing Centennial Exposition (section)

=== Other buildings ===
[[File:A573, Ohio House, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 2017.jpg|thumb|The [[Ohio House (Philadelphia)|Ohio House]], one of four exposition buildings remaining in [[Fairmount Park]]; the others are [[Memorial Hall (Philadelphia)|Memorial Hall]] and two [[Centennial comfort stations|comfort stations]].]]

Eleven nations had their own exhibition buildings, and others contributed small structures, including the Swedish School house referenced below, now in [[Central Park]], New York City. The British buildings were extensive and exhibited the evolved bicycle, with tension spokes and a large front wheel. Two English manufacturers, Bayless Thomas and Rudge, displayed their high-wheel bikes (called "ordinary bikes" or "penny farthings") at the exposition. The bicycle displays inspired [[Albert Augustus Pope]] to begin making high-wheel bikes in the United States. He started the Columbia Bike Company and published a journal called "[[League of American Wheelmen|LAW]] Bulletin and Good Roads", which was the beginning of the [[Good Roads Movement]].{{citation needed|date = November 2015}}. The main British building, also known as St. George's Hall or the English Commission Building, survived at its original site as [[Fairmount Park]] offices until it was demolished in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa0900/pa0943/data/pa0943data.pdf |title=International Exhibition of 1876 |access-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-date=September 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927201124/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa0900/pa0943/data/pa0943data.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

26 of the 37 U.S. states<!-- source is manual count at our [[U.S. State]] --> constructed buildings along States Drive in the exhibition grounds. Only three such state houses are still extant: the [[Ohio House (Philadelphia)|Ohio House]] at its original location in Fairmount Park,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fairmountpark.org/OhioHouse.asp |title=Ohio House |access-date=2012-01-19 |publisher=Philadelphia Parks & Recreation: Fairmount Park |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126034423/http://www.fairmountpark.org/OhioHouse.asp |archive-date=2012-01-26}}</ref> the Maryland House, which was moved to [[Druid Hill Park]] in [[Baltimore]], where it is extant today,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/589 |title=The Maryland Building |access-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-date=November 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130083727/https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/589 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Missouri House, which was moved to [[Spring Lake, New Jersey]], along with several other exhibition buildings, some of which are still extant in various [[Jersey Shore]] towns.<ref name=prial>Frank J. Prial (July 15, 1976). [https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/15/archives/buildings-from-1876-centennial-live-on-in-spring-lake-nj-1876.html "Buildings From 1876 Centennial Live On in Spring Lake, N.J."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330083700/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/15/archives/buildings-from-1876-centennial-live-on-in-spring-lake-nj-1876.html |date=March 30, 2018 }}. ''nytimes.com''. ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved March 10, 2019.</ref>

The [[Federal government of the United States|United States government]] had a cross-shaped building that held exhibits from various government departments. The remaining structures were corporate exhibitions, administration buildings, restaurants, and other buildings designed for public comfort.<ref>''Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition'', p. 109.</ref>