The great Central Fair of the United States Sanitary Commission of the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware was held in Logan Square from June 7th to 28th, 1864. It was an ambitious project carried out with signal success. The whole area of the square was covered with a group of temporary exhibition buildings. The main building was 540 feet long and 60 feet wide; the architect of which was Strickland Kneass. The other buildings were erected after designs of Henry E. Wrigley. It was computed that the aggregate length of the buildings was six thousand five hundred feet, and the whole was constructed in forty working days. During the existence of the Fair, a daily paper, called Our Daily Fare, was published, edited by Charles G. Leland. President Lincoln was unable to be present at the opening of the exhibition, but he and Mrs. Lincoln visited the Fair on June 16th. As all the articles for sale in the Fair were not sold when it was closed, what remained was sold at auction on July 6th. Sanitary Fair Logan Circle Philadelphia, PA --June 7 to 28, 1864
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