An edition of The finest building in America (2018)

The finest building in America

the New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858

The finest building in America
Burrows, Edwin G., Burrows, Ed ...
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An edition of The finest building in America (2018)

The finest building in America

the New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858

"Built in 1853 in New York's Bryant Park and immediately pronounced the most beautiful structure in America, the Crystal Palace was intended not simply to emulate but rival the famous Victorian landmark in London's Hyde Park. As with its English counterpart, however, its beauty was ephemeral. It caught fire, and on October 5, 1858, "great waves of lurid light" overtook spectators and those rushing to save it. Within thirty minutes, the beloved dome was nothing but a heap of smoldering debris. In his latest book, Edwin G. Burrows, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History and co-author of GOTHAM: A History of New York to 1898, offers a memorable and elegiac look at the Crystal Palace. While it didn't match in dimension Robert Paxton's London original--the scale of which was truly colossal--the New York version became a beloved landmark almost from the instant of its creation. Centerpiece of the 1853 World's Fair, it was home to numerous exhibitions and became a showplace for displaying the growing industrial might of the nation. Walt Whitman rhapsodized about it as "Earth's modern wonder, History's Seven outstripping." Its sudden loss provoked intense mourning-matched only perhaps by the razing of the old Penn Station a century later-and then gradually it slipped from memory. The Finest Building in America will evoke the Crystal Palace's life and times, replete with beautiful period images. The first book-length account of the building's short but glorious life, Burrows book aims to restore it in the minds and hearts of New Yorkers and New York aficionados and fans everywhere"--

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Table of Contents

Prologue : the end
Glances at Europe
An honor to the country
The wilderness of objects
The widowed bride of sixth avenue
Epilogue : the finest building in America.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
721/.0449609747
Library of Congress
NA6750.N5 B87 2018, NA6750.N5B87 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 248 pages
Number of pages
248

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Open Library
OL26946066M
ISBN 10
0190681217
ISBN 13
9780190681210
LCCN
2017031341
OCLC/WorldCat
982092707

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