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The New York Crystal Palace was designed by Georg Carstensen and German architect Charles Gildemeister, and was directly inspired by The Crystal Palace built in London's Hyde Park to house The Great Exhibition of 1851. The New York Crystal Palace had the shape of a Greek cross, and was crowned by a dome 100 ft (30 m) in diameter.
Opening on July 14, 1853 with newly sworn President Franklin Pierce in attendance, the fair was seen by over 1.1 million visitors before it closed on November 14, 1854. The fair featured its own glass and iron exhibition building – the New York Crystal Palace – directly inspired by London's. [1] The Palace was destroyed by fire on October 5 ...
The Latting Observatory was a wooden tower in New York City built as part of the 1853 Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, adjoining the New York Crystal Palace.It was located on the North side of 42nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue across the street from the site of present-day Bryant Park.
In 1854, workers stripped 60 tons of bark from the tree to display at exhibitions in New York and London. [9] The bark was shipped around Cape Horn to the New York Crystal Palace, where the bark shell was reassembled and first showcased.
New York Crystal Palace: an 'oil-color' plate by George Baxter (September 1, 1853) By the early 1850s New York had grown to sufficient size and prominence that the city decided to host a major exhibition of the type that London had pioneered in 1851. [60] Such early exhibitions were forerunners of the later world's fairs.
Painting of the New York Crystal Palace, 1853. In 1686, when the area was still a wilderness, New York's colonial governor, Thomas Dongan, designated the area now known as Bryant Park as a public space. [4] George Washington's troops crossed the area while retreating from the Battle of Long Island in 1776. The road upon which Washington's ...
The New York Crystal Palace is constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City. The New York Cotton Exchange building is completed in New York City. Rhode Island Tool Company building is completed in Providence, Rhode Island. Charlbury railway station in Oxfordshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened. [1]
The Crystal Palace was an enormous success, considered an architectural marvel, but also an engineering triumph that showed the importance of the exhibition itself. [6] The building was later moved and re-erected in 1854 in enlarged form at Sydenham Hill in south London, an area that was renamed Crystal Palace. It was destroyed by fire on 30 ...