Automobile and Manufacturer's Building, Exhibition hall in Dallas, United States

The Automobile Building is a column-free exhibition hall at Fair Park in Dallas, with 84,000 square feet of floor and a ceiling rising from 20 feet 6 inches at the beam to 34 feet. Its porticos face the Esplanade opposite the Centennial Building, and Art Deco murals of the electric, mining and inventing industries decorate the exterior.

The structure first opened as the Varied Industries Building in 1936, then burned down in 1942. A replacement was built in 1947, and a later remodeling brought back the original look, including the porticos and the exterior colors.

The exterior murals show electric, mining and inventing industries, restored in 1999 along with the repainting of the facade. Visitors can compare the porticos on the Esplanade side with the matching front of the Centennial Building opposite, rebuilt in 1985-1986 to mirror it.

Approach from the Esplanade side, where the restored porticos face the Centennial Building across the open space. The hall sits next to the Fair Park DART Rail stop, and two large roll-up doors allow vehicles and heavy exhibits to be loaded directly onto the floor. The interior is column-free, so sightlines stay open from any point in the room.

Inside, there are no columns to interrupt the floor, which allows a single open room to hold around seven thousand people for a reception. The building also kept two very large roll-up doors, so vehicles and heavy exhibits can drive directly onto the exhibition floor.