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Introduction/Guidebook Press Release / Photos The House Takes Shape Entrance & Main Hallway Master Bedroom & Master Bath Living Room Dining Room Kitchen Family Room Bar & Laundry Room Boy's Room Girl's Room & Children's Bath Advertising Gallery The 1965 Season A World's Fair House in Ohio A World's Fair House in Sheboygan? History of the Formica Corporation 5.08.04

Ahhh! Formica ... the miracle laminate of the Space Age. Just imagine an entire house, filled from top to bottom with it. See it in living color at the Formica World's Fair House in Bradd Schiffman's Feature presentation. Visitors can tour a model home which emphasizes the use of plastics -- and win its equivalent in a $100,000 contest. View the Industrial Area Map Locate It: B25 The first house to use laminated plastic for all interior walls, the model also has modern Formica furnishings and is designed for maximum privacy and easy maintenance. The skylighted interior is viewed from an enlarged hallway, where there is a 13-minute tape-recorded tour of animated displays. There are exhibits of products by Formica and other divisions of American Cyanamid Company. $100,000 SWEEPSTAKES. Visitors may enter the 1965 Sweepstakes by filling out a form. Grand prize is a complete Formica World's Fair House, lot included, built anywhere in the U.S. There are also 2,500 other prizes. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book