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- Paleozoic_Museum abstract "Following the success of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' life-sized concrete dinosaur models created for England's Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, in 1868 the Commissioners of Manhattan's newly created Central Park recruited the sculptor to create replicas of America's antediluvian giants for a proposed museum in Central Park. The museum was to have been known as the Paleozoic Museum (or Palaeozoic Museum), and foundations for the structure were laid by architect Frederick Law Olmsted at Central Park West and 63rd Street. Like Hyde Park's Crystal Palace, Hawkins' display was to be housed within a great iron frame and an arched glass roof. Surviving sketches and photographs show that Hawkins had planned an elaborate, if anachronistic, menagerie, mixing Mesozoic dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs with extinct Cenozoic mammals.However, unfortunately for Hawkins and future generations, the planned museum ran afoul of 19th Century New York's corrupt politics. After Hawkins spoke out publicly against \"Boss\" William Magear Tweed, vandals in the employ of Tweed broke into Hawkins' workshop on a spring day in 1871 and used sledge-hammers to reduce the seven finished models and their molds, as well as other materials, to rubble. The ruined sculptures were then buried somewhere near the southwestern corner of the park.Afterwards, Hawkins went to Princeton University where he painted a number of restorations of America's Late Cretaceous environments (these have survived). He also managed to build one last dinosaur, a hadrosaur (Hadrosaurus foulkii). It was exhibited in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. as part of commemorations of the centenary of the Declaration of Independence in 1876. Though the hadrosaur sculpture was allowed to decay and crumble, some fragments have recently been located, all that now survives of Hawkins' ill-fated American dinosaur models.Extant drawings by Hawkins, along with other records, indicate that the Paleozoic Museum would have included life-sized restorations of the theropod Laelaps (=Dryptosaurus), the hadrosaurid Hadrosaurus, the plesiosaur Elasmosaurus, and the mosasaur Mosasaurus (all from the Upper Cretaceous marls of New Jersey), along with glyptodont models, a pair of giant ground sloth, giant Pleistocene elk, mammoths, and extinct mammalian carnivores. Hawkins models from the Crystal Palace exhibition have survived and can be seen today in Sydenham Park.".
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- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Americas.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Anachronism.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Antediluvian.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Benjamin_Waterhouse_Hawkins.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Carnivore.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_museums_in_New_York.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dinosaurs.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Paleontology_in_the_United_States.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Cenozoic.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Central_Park.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Century.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Dryptosaurus.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Elasmosaurus.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink England.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Extinction.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_Law_Olmsted.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Glyptodont.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Hadrosaurus.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Hyde_Park,_London.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Mammal.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Mammoth.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Manhattan.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Mesozoic.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Mosasaur.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Mosasaurus.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink New_Jersey.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Paleozoic.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Pleistocene.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Plesiosauria.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Princeton_University.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Sculpture.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Sloth.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Sydenham.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink The_Crystal_Palace.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink The_Great_Exhibition.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Theropoda.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink Washington,_D.C..
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink William_M._Tweed.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink File:Hawkins_studio.jpg.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLink File:Palaeozoic_museum_sketch.jpg.
- Paleozoic_Museum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Paleozoic Museum".
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- Paleozoic_Museum subject Category:Defunct_museums_in_New_York.
- Paleozoic_Museum subject Category:Dinosaurs.
- Paleozoic_Museum subject Category:Paleontology_in_the_United_States.
- Paleozoic_Museum comment "Following the success of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' life-sized concrete dinosaur models created for England's Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, in 1868 the Commissioners of Manhattan's newly created Central Park recruited the sculptor to create replicas of America's antediluvian giants for a proposed museum in Central Park.".
- Paleozoic_Museum label "Paleozoic Museum".
- Paleozoic_Museum sameAs Q7127250.
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- Paleozoic_Museum wasDerivedFrom Paleozoic_Museum?oldid=626800788.
- Paleozoic_Museum depiction Palaeozoic_museum_sketch.jpg.
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