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The finest building in America : the New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858 / Edwin G. Burrows.
ISBN:
9780190681227
Title:
The finest building in America : the New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858 / Edwin G. Burrows.
Author:
Burrows, Edwin G., 1943-2018, author.
Personal Author:
Burrows, Edwin G., 1943-2018, author.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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.
Local Note:
eBooks on EBSCOhost
Corporate Subject:
Crystal Palace (New York, N.Y.)
Conference Subject:
New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854 : New York, N.Y.)

New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
Subject Term:
Glass construction -- New York (State) -- New York.

Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865.

Construction en verre -- New York (État) -- New York.

Monuments disparus -- New York (État) -- New York.

HISTORY -- General.

HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.

ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management.

ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design.

Buildings

Glass construction

Lost architecture
Geographic Term:
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

New York (State) -- New York
Format:
Electronic Resources
Electronic Access:
http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1668810
Publication Date:
2018
Publication Information:
New York :

Oxford University Press,

2018.