{"id":72,"date":"2008-10-07T05:39:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T05:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-09-25T06:18:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T06:18:18","slug":"connecticut-building-eastern-states-exposition-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Building (Eastern States Exposition) (1939)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Connecticut-Building.jpg\" alt=\"Connecticut Building\" title=\"Connecticut Building\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Connecticut-Building.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Connecticut-Building-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebige.com\/fair\/ave_connecticut.html\">Connecticut Building<\/a> was the fifth New England state building to be constructed on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebige.com\/fair\/big_e_avenueofstates.html\">Avenue of States<\/a>&#8221; at the Eastern States Exposition fairgrounds in West Springfield.  The cornerstone was laid by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilbur_Lucius_Cross\">Governor Wilbur C. Cross<\/a> on September 20, 1938 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.gov\/cct\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2128&#038;Q=302614\">the building<\/a>, designed as a replica of the <a href=\"http:\/\/historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=96\">Old State House<\/a> in Hartford, was completed the following year.  <strong>Edit:<\/strong>  I&#8217;ve taken a better quality image of the building; below is the old one&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ct.jpg' alt='ct.jpg' \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Building was the fifth New England state building to be constructed on the &#8220;Avenue of States&#8221; at the Eastern States Exposition fairgrounds in West Springfield. The cornerstone was laid by Governor Wilbur C. Cross on September 20, 1938 and the building, designed as a replica of the Old State House in Hartford, was completed the following year. Edit: I&#8217;ve taken a better quality image of the building; below is the old one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,59,84],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial-revival","category-public-buildings","category-west-springfield","tag-big-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}