Texas Centennial Exposition buildings

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Art Deco architecture ensemble building complex historic district

The Texas Centennial Exposition buildings are a collection of monumental Art Deco structures in Dallas’s Fair Park, designed for the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and now recognized as a major architectural and cultural landmark.

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Label	Occurrences
Texas Centennial Exposition grounds	2
Cavalcade of Texas structures	1
Texas Centennial Exposition buildings canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Art Deco architecture ensemble ⓘ building complex ⓘ historic district ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Art Deco ⓘ Moderne ⓘ
completionDate	1936 ⓘ
constructedFor	1936 Texas Centennial celebration ⓘ Texas Centennial Exposition (1936) ⓘ surface form: Texas Centennial Exposition
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culturalSignificance	major architectural and cultural landmark of Texas ⓘ symbol of Dallas’s development in the 1930s ⓘ
currentUse	State Fair of Texas venue ⓘ museums and cultural institutions ⓘ performance and exhibition spaces ⓘ
hasPart	Administration Building (Fair Park, 1936) ⓘ Agriculture Building at Fair Park ⓘ surface form: Agriculture Building (Fair Park, 1936) Texas Centennial Exposition buildings self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cavalcade of Texas structures Cotton Bowl Stadium ⓘ surface form: Cotton Bowl Stadium (original structure) Electric Building at Fair Park ⓘ surface form: Electric Building (Fair Park) Esplanade of State ⓘ Federal Building (Fair Park, 1936) ⓘ Food and Fiber Building at Fair Park ⓘ surface form: Food and Fiber Building (Fair Park) Hall of State ⓘ Livestock Building (Fair Park, 1936) ⓘ Music Hall at Fair Park (remodeled for 1936 exposition) ⓘ Pan American Building (Fair Park, 1936) ⓘ Texas Automobile Building ⓘ
heritageDesignation	Dallas Fair Park ⓘ surface form: Dallas Landmark National Historic Landmark ⓘ National Register of Historic Places ⓘ surface form: National Register of Historic Places district
inception	1935 ⓘ
locatedIn	Dallas ⓘ Dallas County, Texas ⓘ Fair Park ⓘ Texas ⓘ
notableFor	formal axial planning around the Esplanade ⓘ integrated sculptural reliefs and murals ⓘ monumental Art Deco architecture ⓘ role in the history of world’s fairs in the United States ⓘ
owner	Dallas, Texas ⓘ surface form: City of Dallas
partOf	Fair Park historic complex ⓘ surface form: Fair Park historic district
significantArchitect	Donald Barthelme Sr. ⓘ George Dahl NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Philippe Cret ⓘ surface form: Paul Cret (consulting architect for Hall of State and planning) Warren Morey ⓘ other members of the 1936 Centennial architects’ team ⓘ
significantArtist	Carlo Ciampaglia (muralist) ⓘ
significantEvent	Texas Centennial Exposition (1936) ⓘ
significantSculptor	Lawrence Tenney Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ Raoul Josset NERFINISHED ⓘ
significantYear	1936 ⓘ
theme	commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Texas independence ⓘ

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George L. Dahl → notableWork → Texas Centennial Exposition buildings ⓘ

Texas Centennial Exposition buildings → hasPart → Texas Centennial Exposition buildings self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cavalcade of Texas structures

Electric Building at Fair Park → partOf → Texas Centennial Exposition buildings ⓘ

this entity surface form: Texas Centennial Exposition grounds

Agriculture Building at Fair Park → partOf → Texas Centennial Exposition buildings ⓘ

this entity surface form: Texas Centennial Exposition grounds