Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was an iron and glass structure built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first of the World's Fairs.  Designed by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1,851 feet long, with an interior height of 128 feet, and was three times the size of St Paul's Cathedral.  There is a football club, Crystal Palace F.C., in South London, that takes tts name from the structure.  The structure was destroyed on November 30, 1936, by a fire that began as a small office fire.