Crystal Palace
In Crystal Palace once stood a marvel of Victorian engineering: a cast-iron and plate-glass palace designed by Joseph Paxton, built to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park. The building stretched about 1,851 feet in length, rose to a ceiling height of 128 feet, and boasted 293,000 panes of glass—the greatest area of glass ever seen in a single structure at that time. After the Exhibition, the Palace was relocated to Penge Place in South London, where it stood from June 1854 until its destruction by fire in November 1936. The nearby residential area grew around the landmark, and the area is now remembered through Crystal Palace Park and the continued legacy of Crystal Palace F.C., founded at the site in its early years. Today, what remains at this spot is memory and a park that preserves Hawkins’s Crystal Palace Dinosaurs from 1854, a testament to the era’s imagination and industrial prowess. …
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