Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal...
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town was "all prospect and no city." In 1859, it was renamed for Sir Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace, who was a major shareholder in the...
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The Crystal Palace (category Joseph Paxton buildings and structures)
examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. Designed by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1,851 feet (564 m) long, with an...
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Château de Ferrières (category Joseph Paxton buildings and structures)
architect Joseph Paxton. The inspiration for the design of Ferrières was Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, England, the house that Paxton had built...
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1851 was held in the park, for which The Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton, was erected. Free speech and demonstrations have been a key feature...
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Mentmore Towers (category Joseph Paxton buildings and structures)
Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, designed the building in the...
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Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. (born December 23, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the attorney general of Texas since 2015. A member...
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and friend, Sir Joseph Paxton, cultivated them in the greenhouses of Chatsworth House. The plants were botanically described by Paxton as Musa cavendishii...
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The Gardeners' Chronicle (category Joseph Paxton buildings and structures)
magazine Horticulture Week. Founded in 1841 by the horticulturists Joseph Paxton, Charles Wentworth Dilke, John Lindley and the printer William Bradbury...
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still form the setting of the Cascade. In 1826 a 23-year-old named Joseph Paxton, who had trained at Kew Gardens, was appointed head gardener at Chatsworth...
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the Liverpool suburb of Toxteth. This was laid out to the designs of Joseph Paxton from 1842 and opened in 1843. The land on which the park was built was...
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Elisha Franklin Paxton (March 4, 1828 – May 3, 1863) was an American lawyer and soldier who served as a Confederate brigadier general during the American...
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Park, Joseph Paxton appealed for the retention of The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, but the government decreed that the Palace be removed. Paxton formed...
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the 1840s, and were quickly overshadowed by the glass architecture of Joseph Paxton, the designer of the 1851 Crystal Palace. His "great conservatory" at...
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Park in the Liverpool suburb of Toxteth, laid out to the designs of Joseph Paxton from 1842 and opened in 1843. The land on which the Princes park was...
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in the centre of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It was designed by Joseph Paxton and opened on 5 April 1847. Birkenhead park was designated a conservation...
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weather permitting. People's Park is a public park originally designed by Joseph Paxton, given to the people of Halifax in 1857 by Sir Francis Crossley. The...
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original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016. "Crystal Palace: Joseph Paxton – Transported by moving company". Retrieved 19 June 2014. PPIE Found...
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more comparable to the techniques pioneered by the British architects Joseph Paxton (who was responsible for London's Crystal Palace) and Decimus Burton...
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p. 13. Paxton 2008, pp. 15–16. Logan, Joseph. "Joseph Brant". The American Revolution. Retrieved July 7, 2020. Paxton 2008, pp. 16–17. Paxton 2008, p...
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Paxton Gate is a San Francisco-based company founded in 1992 by Sean Quigley that is named after famed British gardener and architect Sir Joseph Paxton...
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end, the two aforementioned dukes became the first to achieve this, Joseph Paxton (for the Duke of Devonshire) being the first in November 1849 by replicating...
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1837 the orangery was replaced by a large conservatory designed by Joseph Paxton. In 1861 the main part of the house was virtually destroyed by fire...
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– actor (1807–1867) John Pennington Harman VC – Soldier (1914–1944) Joseph Paxton – English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament Little Tich (Harry...
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Towers and the Château de Ferrières, both designed in the 1850s by Joseph Paxton for members of the Rothschild banking family. The style is characterized...
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many years, and to The Gardeners' Chronicle, which he co-founded with Joseph Paxton, William Bradbury and Wentworth Dilke, and where he was in charge of...
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Georgian-style housing around the park. Prince's Park was designed by Joseph Paxton and James Pennethorne, opened in 1842 and named for the newborn Edward...
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Christian Hansen, Danish historicist architect (died 1883) August 3 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener, architect and MP (died 1865) October 16 – Robert...
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His gardener, Sir Joseph Paxton cultivated them in the greenhouses of Chatsworth House. The plants were botanically described by Paxton as Musa cavendishii...
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after they purchased Punch magazine. As printers they did work for Joseph Paxton, Edward Moxon and Chapman and Hall (publishers of Charles Dickens)....
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