A new chapter in the nearly 150-year history of Centennial High School began this week as stakeholders cut the ceremonial ribbon for its new school building on Monday. Established in 1876 ...

Today marks the 140th anniversary of the opening of the 1876 Centennial Exposition ... Decisions made by the Centennial Committee as to roads, buildings, gardens and vistas continue to reverberate ...

The exposition opened May 10, 1876, and was considered the first successful world ... the City Public Building and the Agriculture Building. The Centennial Commission held a competition for the design ...

Fairmount Park in Philadelphia was the site of the city's Centennial Exposition from ... out what type of materials were used for the building in 1876," Andrews said. "It was 1876 and Japan ...

WALTER LICHT, Ph.D. Historian, University of Pennsylvania Four hundred and fifty acres of Fairmont Park were given over to the Centennial Exhibition grounds. They built about 200 city buildings ...

Up to the present time only seven foreign Governments have either erected or intimated any intention of erecting buildings within the grounds of the Centennial Exhibition. View Full Article in ...

10.--During the excitement attending the fire on the opposite side of Elm avenue yesterday afternoon, quite a panic occurred among the visitors in several portions of the Main Building upon the ...

The 1876 International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, which was more commonly known as the Centennial ... the 249 temporary buildings and stayed in the ...

The first American centennial was the U.S. centennial of 1876 in Philadelphia for which 200 new buildings were constructed, none of which exist today. Centennials in several states followed ...