Portugal's pavilion was not large, but its Manueline Gothic front, drawn from the Jerónimos monastery, Batalha and the Convent of Christ at Tomar, made it one of the most distinctive buildings in the section. Statues of Prince Henry the Navigator and Pedro Álvares Cabral flanked the entrance under a frieze of shields. It was designed by António Couto d'Abreu, with W. C. Coulter of San Francisco as local architect.
The octagonal interior worked like a travel album. Large framed photographs showed the Jerónimos, Pena Castle, Coimbra and Évora, and dioramas of Oporto, Lisbon and Funchal filled the alcoves. There were also lace and needlework. At the dedication on March 5, 1915, a hundred girls in the national red and green attended.
At a glance
- Dedicated March 5, 1915; site selected November 26, 1912.
- Octagonal interior with photographs and dioramas.
- Designed by António Couto d'Abreu, with W. C. Coulter of San Francisco as local architect.
- Italy's pavilion stood directly across the Avenue of Nations.
Afterward
Not recorded; presumably auctioned and wrecked.
Sources
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (1921), ch. XXXV, p. 198
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (1921), ch. XLVIII, pp. 259-262
- Official Guide of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), p. 49