The original Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park in London for the Great Exhibition in 1851. When the exhibition was over, it was dismantled and rebuilt in Upper Norwood, a suburb of southeast London. It was destroyed by fire in 1936 but the foundations still remain. The Upper Norwood area is now usually known as Crystal Palace and has a football (soccer) team named after it.
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Crystal Palace was moved to Sydenham Hill in South London and reconstructed in what was, in effect, a 200 acre Victorian theme park. The new Crystal Palace park at Sydenham was opened by Queen Victoria on June 10th, 1854.
The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.