Scientific American magazine published a piece under "New Inventions" in its issue of December 16, 1848, describing and illustrating Banvard's mechanism for displaying a moving panorama.

[1] After a run of nearly a year, he took the production to New York City[2] and then to Europe,[3] Asia, and Africa and even gave Queen Victoria a private viewing.

[7] On his return he invested part of the fortune he had made in 60 acres (240,000 m2) overlooking Cold Spring Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island, where in 1852-55, in competition with P. T. Barnum's palace "Iranistan" in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he proceeded to design and have built a baronial residence from its eastern shore, which, it was given out, was intended to resemble Windsor Castle; he named the place Glenada, the glen of his daughter Ada, but the locals called it "Banvard's Folly".

In 2016, a new musical entitled Georama: An American Panorama Told on Three Miles of Canvas premiered at the Repertory Theatre of St.

[12] The musical tells Banvard's life story through his rise and fall as an artist, his conflict with P. T. Barnum and love for his wife Elizabeth.

It premiered in 2017 on August 2 through 6th at New York Musical Theatre Festival, and starred PJ Griffith, Jillian Louis, Randy Blair, and Nick Sullivan.