Editing Sesquicentennial Exposition (section)

===Opening===
[[File:Sesquicentennial Exposition Gold Medal of Award 1926.jpg|thumb|The Gold Medal of Award sculpted by [[Albert Laessle]]]]
The fair opened on May 31, 1926, and ran through November on grounds bounded by 10th Street, Packer Avenue, 23rd Street, and the [[U.S. Navy]] Yard (Terminal Avenue) in [[South Philadelphia]].  Originally known as [[League Island Park]], these grounds are now occupied by [[FDR Park]], [[Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Marconi Plaza]], [[Packer Park, Philadelphia|Packer Park Residential Neighborhood]], the three stadiums of Philadelphia's massive [[South Philadelphia Sports Complex]]: [[Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)|Wells Fargo Center]], [[Lincoln Financial Field]], and [[Citizens Bank Park]], and the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] training complex which now occupy that portion of the grounds which from 1933 to 1993 were the site of Philadelphia Naval Hospital that was demolished 2001.

The senior draftsman for the design of the exposition buildings was a young [[Louis Kahn]], later a world-renowned architect, then working under City Architect John Molitor.<ref>[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829 Kahn, Louis Isadore (1901-1974) - Philadelphia Architects and Buildings<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>  Sculptor [[Charles Tefft]] was chosen as the director of sculpture for the fair while noted Philadelphia sculptor and artist [[Albert Laessle]] created the fair's Medals of Award.<ref>Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, SC, 1968 p. 150</ref>