Editing World's Columbian Exposition (section)

=== Surviving structures ===
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File:1893 Nina Pinta Santa Maria replicas.jpg|alt=Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria replicas.|''[[Pinta (ship)|Pinta]]'', ''[[Santa María (ship)|Santa María]]'', and ''[[Niña (ship)|Niña]]'' replicas from Spain.
File:Viking, replica of the Gokstad Viking ship, at the Chicago World Fair 1893.jpg|alt=Viking, replica of the Gokstad Viking ship.|''[[Viking (replica Viking longship)|Viking]]'', a replica of the [[Gokstad ship]].
File:Chicago expo White City fire.jpg|alt=White City fire|After the fair, the White City on fire.
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Almost all of the fair's structures were designed to be temporary;<ref>[https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/worlds-columbian-exposition The City Beyond the White City, World’s Columbian Exposition, Contextualizing the Fair, .beyondthewhitecity.org]</ref> of the more than 200 buildings erected for the fair, the only two which still stand in place are the [[Palace of Fine Arts, Chicago|Palace of Fine Arts]] and the [[Art Institute of Chicago Building|World's Congress Auxiliary Building]]. From the time the fair closed until 1920, the Palace of Fine Arts housed the Field Columbian Museum (now the [[Field Museum of Natural History]], since relocated); in 1933 (having been completely rebuilt in permanent materials), the Palace building re-opened as the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Museum of Science and Industry]].<ref>[http://www.msichicago.org/explore/about-us/museum-facts/ About The Museum – Museum History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408184848/http://www.msichicago.org/explore/about-us/museum-facts |date=2016-04-08 }} – [[Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago]], USA</ref>  The second building, the World's Congress Building, was one of the few buildings not built in Jackson Park, instead it was built downtown in [[Grant Park (Chicago)|Grant Park]]. The cost of construction of the World's Congress Building was shared with the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], which, as planned, moved into the building (the museum's current home) after the close of the fair.

The three other significant buildings that survived the fair represented Norway, the Netherlands, and the State of Maine. The [[Norway]] Building was a recreation of a traditional wooden [[stave church]]. After the Fair it was relocated to Lake Geneva, and in 1935 was moved to a museum called [[Little Norway, Wisconsin|Little Norway]] in [[Blue Mounds, Wisconsin]]. In 2015 it was dismantled and shipped back to Norway, where it was restored and reassembled.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/the-journey-for-the-norway-building-comes-full-circle/article_e0a3ae2e-034b-58b9-8de3-dfc972bf41e7.html|title=The journey for the Norway Building comes full circle|last=Journal|first=Barry Adams {{!}} Wisconsin State|work=madison.com|access-date=2018-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709172126/https://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/the-journey-for-the-norway-building-comes-full-circle/article_e0a3ae2e-034b-58b9-8de3-dfc972bf41e7.html|archive-date=2018-07-09|url-status=live}}</ref> The second is the [[Maine State Building]], designed by Charles Sumner Frost, which was purchased by the Ricker family of [[Poland Spring, Maine]]. They moved the building to their resort to serve as a library and art gallery. The Poland Spring Preservation Society now owns the building, which was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1974. The third is [[The Dutch House (Brookline, Massachusetts)|The Dutch House]], which was moved to [[Brookline, Massachusetts]].

The [[Viking (replica Viking longship)|1893 Viking ship]] that was sailed to the Exposition from Norway by Captain Magnus Andersen is located in [[Geneva, Illinois]]. The ship is open to visitors on scheduled days April through October.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vikingship.us|title=Friends of the Viking Ship|access-date=2018-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011214705/http://www.vikingship.us/|archive-date=2018-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>

The main altar at [[St. John Cantius in Chicago]], as well as its matching two side altars, are reputed to be from the Columbian Exposition.

Since many of the other buildings at the fair were intended to be temporary, they were removed after the fair. The White City so impressed visitors (at least before air pollution began to darken the façades) that plans were considered to refinish the exteriors in marble or some other material. These plans were abandoned in July 1894, when much of the fair grounds was destroyed in a fire.