Wisconsin Pavilion

Neillsville, United States

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Designed by John Steinmann, the Wisconsin Pavilion is a twelve-sided modernist rotunda that originally served as the Wisconsin exhibit building at the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens. Featuring six canopies supported by slanted concrete piers and crowned with a glass spire spelling the state's name, the structure was relocated to Neillsville, Wisconsin in 1965 and reassembled there by 1967. Since its dedication in Neillsville, the pavilion has functioned as a tourist center and broadcast facility for radio stations WCCN AM and FM, now under long-term ownership by the Grap family. The mid-century modern building is flanked by a sixteen-foot-tall fiberglass cow sculpture known as Chatty Belle and is surrounded by landscaped grounds including a sunken rock garden, contributing to its listing on the National Register of Historic Places.