The official narrative is that over 200 huge buildings were built for the Chicago Worlds Fair only to be torn down a few years later. Everyone believes that story, even though they wouldn't have been able to even complete the foundations of the buildings in time for the fair with 1893 machinery.
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But the buildings didn't need foundations. They were temporary structures that were built with the intention of being torn down in the near future.
Look at the magnitude of some of those buildings. You cannot just "temporarily" put up some beams and support those massive arches and tall roof tops.
Anyone experienced in construction will tell you that without heavy duty foundations, those things will not stand up even with today's much advanced construction technology.
Agreed just the site work alone would take years and cost fortunes. My hunch is that SOME of the buildings were cheap plaster ones in order to give credence to the lie that they were all that way
Also i used to believe the lie about the world fairs being just built quickly but then i started looking at actual photos. Even if built from wood only and plaster theres no way to do it. Only if youre inly building a couple buildings and the rest are just getting cleaned up/painted white and getting a new roof