Editing World's Columbian Exposition (section)

=== Great buildings ===
[[File:Agricultural Building at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Painting of the Agricultural Building]]
[[File:Forestry Building World's Fair.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|The Forestry Building]]

There were fourteen main "great buildings"<ref name=DCS />{{rp|17}} centered around a giant reflective pool called the Grand Basin.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Visions of America: A History of the United States Since 1865|last = Keene|first = Jennifer|publisher = Pearson|year = 2013|isbn = 978-0-205-25163-6|location = London|pages = 508, 510}}</ref> Buildings included:
* The Administration Building, designed by [[Richard Morris Hunt]]
* The Agricultural Building, designed by [[Charles Follen McKim|Charles McKim]] of [[McKim, Mead & White]]
* The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, designed by [[George B. Post]]. If this building were standing today, it would rank third in volume (8,500,000m<sup>3</sup>) and eighth in footprint (130,000&nbsp;m<sup>2</sup>) on [[list of largest buildings]].<ref name=devil /> It exhibited works related to literature, science, art and music.
* The Mines and Mining Building, designed by [[Solon Spencer Beman]]
* The Electricity Building, designed by [[Henry Van Brunt]] and [[Frank M. Howe|Frank Maynard Howe]]
* The Machinery Hall, designed by [[Robert Swain Peabody]] of Peabody and Stearns
* [[The Woman's Building (Chicago)|The Woman's Building]], designed by [[Sophia Hayden Bennett|Sophia Hayden]]
* The Transportation Building, designed by [[Adler & Sullivan]]
* The Fisheries Building designed by [[Henry Ives Cobb]]<ref name=DCS />{{rp|23}}
* Forestry Building designed by [[Charles B. Atwood]]
* Horticultural Building designed by [[Jenney and Mundie]]
* Anthropology Building designed by [[Charles B. Atwood]]