Nineteen states participated in the Expo including sixteen foreign nations.
The Parthenon stood for the next twenty years until it could stand no more.
Twenty years of rain and sunshine had weathered it down.
The structure was then demolished and rebuilt on the same foundations, in concrete.
The new Parthenon was opened in 1931.
In 1990, a replica of the statue of Athena Parthenos was built inside the Parthenon.
The modern copy at Nashville is made of gypsum cement and ground fiberglass.
The statue stands 12.8 meters tall, making her the largest piece of indoor sculpture in the Western World.
The Parthenon during the 1897 Expo.
