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New York Crystal Palace was an exhibition building constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations

Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was a World's Fair held in 1853 in New York City, in the wake of the highly successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London....
 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in 1853. The building stood in Reservoir Square and was originally built for the World's Fair held in the summer of 1853.

The building was directly inspired by The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a Cast iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, London, England, to house the The Great Exhibition of 1851....
 built in London's Hyde Park
Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.The park is divided in two by the Serpentine ....
 to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

New York's 1853 Exhibition was held on on a site behind the Croton Distributing Reservoir
Croton Distributing Reservoir

The Croton Distributing Reservoir was an above-ground reservoir at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It supplied the city with drinking water throughout the 19th century....
, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues on 42nd Street (today's Bryant Park
Bryant Park

Bryant Park is a 9.603 acre privately-managed public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is bounded by Fifth Avenue , Sixth Avenue , 40th Street and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan....
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New York Crystal Palace was an exhibition building constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations

Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was a World's Fair held in 1853 in New York City, in the wake of the highly successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London....
 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in 1853. The building stood in Reservoir Square and was originally built for the World's Fair held in the summer of 1853.

The building was directly inspired by The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a Cast iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, London, England, to house the The Great Exhibition of 1851....
 built in London's Hyde Park
Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.The park is divided in two by the Serpentine ....
 to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

New York's 1853 Exhibition was held on on a site behind the Croton Distributing Reservoir
Croton Distributing Reservoir

The Croton Distributing Reservoir was an above-ground reservoir at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It supplied the city with drinking water throughout the 19th century....
, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues on 42nd Street (today's Bryant Park
Bryant Park

Bryant Park is a 9.603 acre privately-managed public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is bounded by Fifth Avenue , Sixth Avenue , 40th Street and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan....
). The building was designed by Georg Carstensen
Georg Carstensen

Johan Bernhard Georg Carstensen was one of the developers of Tivoli Gardens and a Danish army officer. He spent a most of his childhood in the Near East....
 and German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 Charles Gildemeister in the shape of a Greek cross.

The New York Crystal Palace was crowned by a dome 100 feet in diameter and, like the original Crystal Palace, was constructed from iron and glass.

Elisha Otis
Elisha Otis

Elisha Graves Otis invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers, New York in 1852, and had a finished product in 1854....
 demonstrated the safety elevator, which prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke, at the Crystal Palace in 1854.

In 1854 another building directly inspired by The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a Cast iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, London, England, to house the The Great Exhibition of 1851....
, the Glaspalast
Glaspalast (Munich)

The Glaspalast was a glass and iron exhibition building in Munich modeled after The Crystal Palace in London. The Glaspalast opened for the Erste Allgemeine Deutsche Industrieausstellung on July 15, 1854....
 in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, was inaugurated.

The New York Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire on 5 October 1858. When it burned the fair of the American Institute was being held there. The fire began in a lumber room on the side adjacent to 42nd Street. Within fifteen minutes its dome fell and in twenty-five minutes the entire structure had burned to the ground. No lives were lost but the loss of property amounted to more than $350,000. This included the building, valued at $125,000, and exhibits and valuable statuary remaining from the World's Fair.

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