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The Crystal Palace was a glass and cast iron structure built in London, England, for the Great Exhibition of 1851.The building was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, an architect and gardener, and ...

Penge Place, now called Crystal Palace Park, was owned by Paxton's friend and railway entrepreneur Leo Schuster. August 1852 saw the rebuilding work begin and in June 1854 Crystal Palace was re ...

The finished Crystal Palace earned Paxton worldwide acclaim and a knighthood from Queen Victoria. Once the exhibition had ended, the entire structure was relocated to the affluent suburb of Sydenham.

Joseph Paxton already had form when it came to great glass buildings. The Crystal Palace was a wonder of the world, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was the largest glass building ever seen.

1803: Joseph Paxton is born in Milton Bryan, England. His career will take him from garden boy to gardener to landscape designer to architect-engineer of the largest glass buildings of his day ...

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Designed by renowned English architect Sir Joseph Paxton, the Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park at a cost of £80,000 (nearly £10 million in today's money).

As many know, the south London neighbourhood of Crystal Palace gets its name from Joseph Paxton's great glass greenhouse, which was moved here following 1851's Great Exhibition in Hyde Park.