The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858

by Edwin G. Burrows

When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America's copy far surpassed it. Built in what is today Bryant Park, a four-acre site between 40th and 42nd Streets, the colossus of glass and steel indeed seemed poised to displace the British original in worldwide fame. Walt Whitman pronounced it "unsurpassed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190681217
• ISBN13: 9780190681210
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.1"