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Lewiston Teller
Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho
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Boston's Miss Sophia G. Hayden wins $1,000 first prize for Woman's Building design at World's Fair; fellow Bostonian Miss Lois Howe takes $500 second prize, Chicago's Miss Laura Hayes $250 third. Hayden, MIT graduate, summoned to Chicago to refine plans. Design: simple Italian Renaissance, 200x400 ft.
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Miss Sophia G. Hayden, of Boston, wins the $1,000 prize offered for the best design for the woman's building for the world's fair. Miss Lois Howe, also of Boston, takes the second prize, $500, and Miss Laura Hayes, of Chicago, the third, $250. Miss Hayden has been wired to come to Chicago and elaborate her plans. The design is one of marked simplicity, in Italian renaissance style, with colonnades broken by center and end pavilions. The structure is to be 200x400 feet and fifty feet to the cornice. There is no dome, the chief feature of ornamentation being the entrance. Miss Hayden is a first-honor graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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miss sophia g. hayden wins $1,000 first prize; miss lois howe wins $500 second prize; miss laura hayes wins $250 third prize. miss hayden wired to come to chicago to elaborate her plans.
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Miss Sophia G. Hayden of Boston wins the $1,000 prize for the best design for the woman's building for the world's fair. Miss Lois Howe of Boston takes second prize of $500, and Miss Laura Hayes of Chicago takes third prize of $250. The design is of marked simplicity in Italian renaissance style with colonnades broken by center and end pavilions. The structure is 200x400 feet and fifty feet to the cornice, with no dome, the chief feature of ornamentation being the entrance. Miss Hayden is a first-honor graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.