Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings
Fair Park is a recreational and educational complex in Dallas, Texas, United States, located immediately east of downtown. The 277-acre area is registered as a Dallas Landmark and National Historic Landmark; many of the buildings were constructed for the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Building
- Description: historic district in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
- Also known as: “Fair Park”, “Fair Park (Dallas, Tex.)”, and “Site of Texas State Fairs 1886”
- Address: TX
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cotton Bowl and Texas Star.
Cotton Bowl
Stadium
Photo: Robbiewest88, Public domain.
The Cotton Bowl is an outdoor stadium in Dallas, Texas, United States. Opened in 1930 as Fair Park Stadium, it is on the site of the State Fair of Texas, known as Fair Park. Cotton Bowl is situated 490 feet northeast of Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings.
Texas Star
Ferris wheel
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Texas Star is a Ferris wheel at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, where it operates during the annual State Fair of Texas as its most popular ride. With an overall height of 216 feet, it was the tallest Ferris wheel in North America from 1985 until the opening of the 250-foot Star of Puebla in Mexico, on 22 July 2013. Texas Star is situated 860 feet southeast of Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings.
African American Museum
Museum
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
African American Museum of Dallas is an American art museum located at 3536 Grand Avenue in Fair Park, Dallas, Texas. The museum was founded in 1974 and has operated independently since 1979. African American Museum is situated 1,100 feet west of Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Dallas and Deep Ellum.
South Dallas
Deep Ellum
Quarter
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Deep Ellum is a neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, home to a diverse array of arts venues, restaurants, bars, entertainment venues, businesses, and urban residential units near downtown in East Dallas.
Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings
- Categories: fair ground and NRHP district
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.77874° or 32° 46′ 44″ northLongitude
-96.76083° or 96° 45′ 39″ westElevation
459 feet (140 metres)Open location code
8645Q6HQ+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 368164826OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Slovenian—“Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فير بارك - حلبة دالاس”
- Armenian: “Ֆեյր Պարկ”
- Bulgarian: “Феър парк”
- Catalan: “Fair Park”
- Cebuano: “Fair Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, Dallas County)”
- Cebuano: “Fair Park”
- Chinese: “博览公园”
- Chinese: “博覽公園賽道”
- Chinese: “达拉斯大奖赛赛道”
- Chinese: “達拉斯大獎賽賽道”
- Dutch: “Fair Park”
- Finnish: “Fair Park”
- French: “Fair Park”
- Galician: “Circuíto de Fair Park”
- Hungarian: “Fair Park”
- Indonesian: “Fair Park”
- Italian: “Circuito di Dallas”
- Japanese: “フェア・パーク”
- Korean: “페어 파크”
- Lithuanian: “Trasa Fair Park”
- Polish: “Fair Park”
- Portuguese: “Fair Park”
- Russian: “Фэйр-Парк”
- Slovenian: “Fair Park”
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