English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament
Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joseph Paxton
Born
(1803-08-03)3 August 1803
Bedfordshire, England
Died
8 June 1865(1865-06-08) (aged 61)
Sydenham, London, England
Occupation
Architect
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 Palace and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world.
Sir JosephPaxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal...
examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. Designed by JosephPaxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1,851 feet (564 m) long, with an...
Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir JosephPaxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, designed the building in the...
Park in the Liverpool suburb of Toxteth, laid out to the designs of JosephPaxton from 1842 and opened in 1843. The land on which the Princes park was...
and friend, Sir JosephPaxton, cultivated them in the greenhouses of Chatsworth House. The plants were botanically described by Paxton as Musa cavendishii...
more comparable to the techniques pioneered by the British architects JosephPaxton (who was responsible for London's Crystal Palace) and Decimus Burton...
Devonshire, decided to construct the world's highest fountain, and set JosephPaxton to work to build it. An eight-acre (32,000 m2) lake, the Emperor Lake...
in the centre of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It was designed by JosephPaxton and opened on 5 April 1847. Birkenhead park was designated a conservation...
still form the setting of the Cascade. In 1826 a 23-year-old named JosephPaxton, who had trained at Kew Gardens, was appointed head gardener at Chatsworth...
Park, JosephPaxton appealed for the retention of The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, but the government decreed that the Palace be removed. Paxton formed...
the Liverpool suburb of Toxteth. This was laid out to the designs of JosephPaxton from 1842 and opened in 1843. The land on which the park was built was...
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the 1840s, and were quickly overshadowed by the glass architecture of JosephPaxton, the designer of the 1851 Crystal Palace. His "great conservatory" at...
end, the two aforementioned dukes became the first to achieve this, JosephPaxton (for the Duke of Devonshire) being the first in November 1849 by replicating...
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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many years, and to The Gardeners' Chronicle, which he co-founded with JosephPaxton, William Bradbury and Wentworth Dilke, and where he was in charge of...
Towers and the Château de Ferrières, both designed in the 1850s by JosephPaxton for members of the Rothschild banking family. The style is characterized...
Olmsted's design for Central Park in New York City. Designed by JosephPaxton (later Sir JosephPaxton) in 1843 and officially opened in 1847, with great festivity...
greatest exponents of iron frame construction was JosephPaxton, architect of the Crystal Palace. Paxton also continued to build such houses as Mentmore...
His gardener, Sir JosephPaxton cultivated them in the greenhouses of Chatsworth House. The plants were botanically described by Paxton as Musa cavendishii...
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