Article August 2, 1900 Issue

Buffalo's Electric Tower

Boston Herald

The electric tower at the Pan-American Exposition to be held in Buffalo next year will be a work of surpassing magnificance and beauty. The revised plans call for a structure 375 feet high, whose exquisite proportions will arrest the eye and charm the senses of every one who approaches this shrine of the new goddess, electricity. No picture can convey to the mind an adequate idea of the refined grandeur and finished elegance of this great work.

John Galen Howard, designer of the tower, has recently caused to be made in New York a plaster model of this architectural masterpiece. The frame of the great tower will be of steel, the contract for which was let some time ago. Upon this frame will be placed the wood and staff required to complete the richly ornate work of the exterior.

As before stated, the tower will be 375 feet high and rank among the very highest structures on the western continent. The base is seventy feet square and two hundred feet high. Upon the four sides are great panels of rich openwork design, which will, at night, when the interior is lighted, show brilliant effects.

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