The business about moving the crystal palace is, IMO, nonsense. Not doable.
I was just reading that during Alberta's early oil boom (Leduc No. 1) an entire refinery was dismantled near Alaska, shipped to Alberta, and then reassembled. I'd think a refinery would be something like an order of magnitude more complex than a show-building made from iron and glass. So to my eye, it's in the realm of feasibility.