Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei:
Ko te 1904 World Fair i waiho i te taone kaore he whare huihuinga mo nga tau e toru. He rōpū tangata pakihi i arahina e te roia a Guy Golterman i kohikohi $450,000 i roto i te pūtea tūmataiti, a ka hanga i te Coliseum i Washington me Jefferson Avenues. I hoahoatia e Frederick C. Bonsack, a, he poraka katoa i nohoia. I te whakatakoto i te kohatu kokonga i te 22 o Akuhata 1908, i kiia ko te whare te whare nui rawa atu o te iwi i te United States. I whakakapihia e ia te St. Louis Exposition me te Whare Waiata hei huihuinga nui o te taone nui me te pokapū whakangahau nui.