1838 in architecture
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The year 1838 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures[]
Buildings opened[]
- April 8 – The British National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, London.
Chota Imambara, Lucknow
Buildings completed[]
- Palazzo Gavazzi, Milan, Italy, designed by Luigi Clerichetti.[1]
- Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Canada, built by Scottish architect Thomas McKay.
- Walton Hall, Cheshire, England, designed for Sir Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baronet, possibly by Edmund Sharpe.[2]
- Chota Imambara, Lucknow.
Awards[]
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Toussaint Uchard.
Births[]
- January 23 – John James Clark, Australian architect (died 1915)
- April 13 – J. D. Sedding, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1891)
- May 16 – Thomas Forrester, New Zealand plasterer, draughtsman, architect and engineer (died 1907)
- September 18 – Thomas Drew, Irish ecclesiastical architect (died 1910)
- September 29 – Henry Hobson Richardson, American city architect (died 1886)
Deaths[]
- September 5 – Charles Percier, French Neoclassical architect, interior decorator and designer (born 1764)
- October 16 – William Vitruvius Morrison, Irish architect, son and collaborator of Sir Richard Morrison (born 1794)
References[]
- ^ Bucciotti, Achille; Bernardini, Enzo (1990). Milan. Istituto geografico de Agostini. p. 161. ISBN 978-88-402-0876-3. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
- ^ Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006). Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. The Buildings of England. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 628. ISBN 0-300-10910-5.
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- 1838 works
- Years in architecture
- 19th-century architecture