The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858 by Edwin G. Burrows

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

Edwin G. Burrows

264 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 toda...

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