The Crystal Palace
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Cast iron building for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure built in Hyde Park, London, for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Designed by Joseph Paxton, it housed more than 14,000 exhibitors. After the exhibition, it was relocated and rebuilt at Penge Peak beside Sydenham Hill in South London. It stood there from June 1854 until it was destroyed by fire in November 1936. The nearby area was later named Crystal Palace.
- Designer
- Joseph Paxton
- Original purpose
- To house the Great Exhibition of 1851
- Destruction
- Destroyed by fire in November 1936
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- The Crystal Palace (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q202902
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By Philip Henry Delamotte (1821–1889). Public domain · File page on Wikimedia CommonsPhilip Henry Delamotte (1821–1889), Smithsonian LibrariesModifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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