The inferno was witnessed “by more people than any previous fire in Britain,” a blaze ... the exhibition was the venue itself—a palace of 3,330 iron columns and 900,000 square feet of ...

Hampton Court Palace, in Middlesex, on the Thames, 12 miles from the city, was set on fire to-day by the bursting of an oil lamp. The fire ... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

This pointy, iron-braced wooden tower — with its ... it burned down — expect that the Americans' Crystal Palace was levelled by fire just five years after it opened, in October 1858.

The fire destroyed one of the historic market's two halls A fire ripped through the historic Iron Market in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Monday night, destroying one of the city's major ...