States Pavilion Amercian UNITED
Government Building View from the Avd Maria Luisa
On 7 May 1924, the Secretary of State sent a report to the Chamber of Representatives of the United States, with a recommendation of President Calvin Coolidge, was approved for participation in the tournament in Seville. Among the arguments presented prioritized the opportunity to strengthen ties with Latin America, demonstrate the advantages of "American education" and promoting the commercialization of several products in Spain, such as hydrocarbons and their derivatives, machinery land and building materials among others. The proposal found no opposition and was approved by both chambers. In February 1925, he approved the budget allocation for a total of $ 700,000.
The land chosen by the American delegation to raise flag, were originally those of the Sale of Eritaña, but the Standing Committee could not accept this request and that such lands were privately owned. As the July 26, 1926, is given the plot of your choice, this time in the Jardines de San Telmo, 7,500 m2, at the confluence of Paseo de las Delicias and Avenida de Maria Luisa, to build their facilities conditions of the grant of these lands were special.
The difficult negotiations carried out personally the Primo de Rivera and Commissioner Cruz Conde with senior U.S. representatives, this was because the U.S. administration can not build permanent buildings on other nations if
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the land is not owned, solved this problem with an agreement under which the City Council granted the land to the U.S. for 75 years from 31 December 1930, being optional for the City to recover by paying $ 200,994, cost of buildings or the extension of assignment by another 75 years. In this way avoids the purchase of land, but the American government is compensated for the costs of facilities. Should be noted that this clause was not buying the rest of foreign permanent pavilions were built.
Two aerial views of the pavilions and location.
American authorities appointed as Commissioner General for competition to Thomas Campbell, former governor of Arizona, and an advisory committee, with the permanent representative in Seville Judge Roderick Nathaniel Marson. We performed a limited competition among five renowned architects who were asked to buildings together a style they call "English Missions" in tribute to the legacy and English influence in the arts and American customs and the words of its ambassador "... .. are preserves the architectural style called notros old colonial. " Elected
the project presented by William Templeton Johnson, architect born in San Diego a few years earlier had designed the Art Museum of San Diego inspired by the Renaissance Plateresque sixteenth-century Spain. The project submitted consisted of three buildings, one for use as a permanent consulate once the contest, and two temporary. The construction of three pavilions was awarded to a New York company, which in February 1928 work began under the direction of an architect and four engineers to coordinate the work of English companies outsourced, this being the ultimately perform the work building.
Facade Paseo de las Delicias .
The main building, or the Government, with a total built area of \u200b\u200b1,600 m2, is composed of hexagonal with facades Avenue Maria Luisa and Paseo de las Delicias, two stories high, in the center of a courtyard surrounded by covered arcades. The building system is the conventional time, brick walls, unidirectional fabric, tile roofs, in walls and floors hydraulic mortar, woodwork, highlighting the beams decorated the rooms in mahogany.
this building to say two main facades, one facing the Paseo de las Delicias mentioned and one for access from the Avenida de Maria Luisa. Both were inspired by the Renaissance style, the first cover is clearly inspired ornamental details of one of his last works, the Museum of Art San Diego opened in 1926, taking elements such as the use of small arches enclosing a shell molding in the arch of the front door or window of the auction clearly inspired by those in the front of the hospitality of the Santa Cruz de Toledo. For the cover of the Avenida de Maria Luisa, the composition is divided into two zones, the lowest to the balcony, with clear resolve plateresco elements, choosing as the reason shells, in some detail in the Pilatre Baroque. However, for the top, topped with a pediment of undulating forms, with vase, which is part of the crescent-shaped balcony, surrounded by border and ending in a wavy ledge.
Detail of the cover of the front of the Paseo de las Delicias .
For the facades of temporary pavilions inspired by English plateresco, registering the decoration at the top of them, leaving the rest clean ornamentation. Are made entirely in wood and coated with a clear objective exhibitionist.
Private companies were forced to locate their stand in the malls, because the contents were all exposed state were distributed as follows:
The permanent building works were exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian Institute, and as a library with books on the history of America and other general issues, a statement of the departments of State, Treasury, Navy, Post Office, Air Force, Panama Canal, the Chamber of Shipping and the Library of Congress. There was also a map showing the routes taken by the English conquistadors in the south of the country, as well as an exhibition of the Fine Arts Commission and the Office of Buildings and Public Parks Washington.
Another sample that were made this building technological advances Americans, he could see copper plumbing, central heating regulated by singles, an electric refrigerator, a washing machine and mechanical and up to fifty-four applications other than electricity.
Pavilion cinema, later became the children's theater Juan de la Cueva.
In one of the temporary pavilions, the cinema was installed. It was a movie theater with 350 people, which projected a selection of films from two hundred thousand, a rate of more than six per day, on economic themes, historical, military and United States, including one on Hoover president's trip to English America, another on the making of a newspaper, surgery or automobile manufacturing. All these films were of a U.S. propaganda activities. Certainly these displays caused a wide expectation.
flag in the other provisional or Exhibits, the exhibits were installed in the departments of Agriculture, Interior and Commerce, a map light to the steamship lines all over the world show coinage, stamp and tickets; miniature reproduction of the Grand Canyon for two thousand light bulbs. Reproduction of an airport ten model airplanes, railway construction, etc.
Postal a side view of the cinema . Also
also installed a powerful orthogonal station, which reported to Seville with the rest of the world as well as a musical center of the Victor Talking Machine with powerful speakers outside the building that allowed listening to music at a great distance. It was also very named by the press for his curiosity to install a beam of light cast on the entrance of the exhibition allowed to count the number of pedestrians passing by.
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the first of the "Week" in honor of the participating states, taking place from 25 to 31 May. Judging by press reports, the U.S. Pavilion was one of the more attracted a large audience, since among other activities organized military band concerts at Pershing and as mentioned above the films and the emission music by the powerful speakers.
Exhibitions Pavilion.
Once the sample was removed temporary exhibition hall, cediéndose later at the cinema hall City Hall, which became the Children's Theatre Juan de la Cueva, who had an irregular activity in the years after the sample. It was a municipal building and the canon Antonio Manes Jerez, who served as director. Its creation is dated January 30, 1937, was the first area of \u200b\u200bthe city created to host performances aimed at children. He remained standing until the sixties of last century was demolished.
therefore only remains of that shows the government building where he stayed from the end of the contest the consulate of that country, until 1986, became a consular agency and since 2004 in Madariaga headquarters of Contemporary Art Collection, on loan from the council by agreement.
noteworthy is the excellent preservation of the building during the time it was used as a U.S. embassy, \u200b\u200bwhich has made it possible to arrive until today this legacy of the exhibition.
View of the facade of the Avd Maria Luisa detail down the front cover of 
facade of the Art Museum of San Diego
Patio flag inside Government
Different views patio now
THE FILM ARCHIVE SPANISH edited a book entitled "THE EXHIBITION OF 1929" TO BE PICKED UP IN THE PICTURES OF THE EXHIBITION OF LATIN AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL SEVILLA BARCELONA
inserted acontinuación A COMPILATION OF VARIOUS COURTS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS HALL TO APPEAR ON THIS SITE
inserted acontinuación A COMPILATION OF VARIOUS COURTS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS HALL TO APPEAR ON THIS SITE
SOURCES:
- THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, José María Méndez
Head SURVEYOR No. Magazine. 27 / December 1988
- HISTORY American Exhibition in Seville in 1929, Eduardo Rodríguez Bernal
- Flags of the Latin American Exhibition, Alberto Villar Movellan
The American Exhibition "Newspaper Municipal Funds"
- CAMPUS American Exhibition, urbanized area, FLAGS AND CONSERVATION, José María Méndez
Head Andalusia America in the Twentieth Century, Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of Andalusia and Latin
1987 - Exhibit Guide 1929-1930
IBERO AMERICAN - THE IMAGE PLANE OF SEVILLE ALFONSO XII-Ways and prospects of urban area. 1920-1930 - Braojos Alfonso Garrido.
- NOTES ON THE THEATRE in Seville during the 1929 Ibero-American Exhibition, Carolina Ramos Fernández
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