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built for the World's Fair held in the summer of 1853. The building was directly inspired by The Crystal Palace built in London's Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 . New York's 1853 Exhibition was held on on a site behind the Croton Distributing Reservoir , between Fifth and Sixth Avenues on 42nd Street (today's Bryant Park ). The building was designed by architects Georg Carstensen and Charles Gildemeister in the shape of a Greek cross. The New York Crystal Palace was crowned by a dome 100 feet in diameter and like the original Crystal Palace, was constructed from iron and glass. In 1854 another building directly inspired by The Crystal Palace , the Glaspalast in Munich , was inaugurated. The New York Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire on 5 October 1858 . When it burned the fair of the American Institute was being held there. The fire began in a lumber room on the side adjacent to 42nd Street. Within fifteen minutes its dome fell and in twenty-five minutes the entire structure had burned to the ground. No lives were lost but the loss of property amounted to more than $350,000. This included the building, valued at $125,000, and exhibits and valuable statuary remaining from the World's Fair. REFERENCE
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