Paris Colonial Exposition - Posterity

Posterity

Certain of these buildings were preserved or moved:

  • Palais de la Porte Dorée, Former-musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, current Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, porte Dorée in Paris, constructed from 1928 to 1931 by the architects Albert Laprade, Léon Bazin and Léon Jaussely.
  • The foundations of the Parc zoologique de Vincennes
  • The Pagode de Vincennes, on the edges of the lake Daumesnil, in the former houses of Cameroon and Togo of Louis-Hippolyte Boileau: Photo
  • The church Notre-Dame des Missions was moved to Épinay-sur-Seine (95) in 1932.
  • The reproduction of Mount Vernon, house of George Washington, moved to Vaucresson

where it is still visible.

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