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| Location | Lindsborg, Kansas |
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| Coordinates | 38°34′3.2″N97°40′29.3″W / 38.567556°N 97.674806°W |
| Built | 1904 |
| Architect | Ferdinand Boberg |
| NRHP reference No. | 73002129 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 20, 1973 |
Swedish Pavilion is a historic 1904 exposition building in Lindsborg, Kansas, United States. This building is contained on the grounds of the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum at 120 Mill Street.
Designed by Swedish architect Ferdinand Boberg, the Pavilion was built as an international exposition building for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair. After the fair, the Pavilion was moved to Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where it was used for classroom, library, museum and department facilities for the art department. [2]
The Swedish Pavilion was moved to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, - now the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum - also in Lindsborg, in 1969. The facility is used for cultural heritage events at the museum.
The Pavilion was added to the National Historic Register in 1973.
During the royal visit of Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf to the United States in 1976, he toured the Swedish Pavilion as part of festivities in Lindsborg. [3]
A world's fair, also known as a fun exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specific site for a period of time, typically between three and six months.
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McPherson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and largest city is McPherson. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 30,223. The county was named for James McPherson, a general in the American Civil War.
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Gustaf Ferdinand Boberg was a Swedish architect.
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Smoky Valley Roller Mills, now known as the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum, is an historic mill and museum on Mill Street in Lindsborg, Kansas.
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The Iowa State Fairgrounds is located on the east side of Des Moines, Iowa. It annually hosts the Iowa State Fair in late summer. The state fair was begun in Iowa in 1854 and the current fairgrounds were established in 1886. The fairgrounds were listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 as the Iowa State Fair and Exposition Grounds.
The El Prado Complex is a historic district in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. The 13-acre (5.3 ha) complex includes 13 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. Most of the structures were built for San Diego's Panama-California Exposition of 1915–16 and were refurbished and re-used for the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935–36. The original architects were Bertram Goodhue and Carleton Winslow. The area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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