1812 in architecture

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The year 1812 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

London's Egyptian Hall when new

• July 6 - The Laigh Milton Viaduct, built to carry the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in Scotland, is officially opened.^[1][2]
• October 10 - The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt, the fourth theatre on the site, hosts its first production.
• The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)
• The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London, designed by P. F. Robinson, is completed (demolished in 1905).
• St. John's Cathedral (Belize City) is completed, the first church to be built in the colony of British Honduras.
• The Flag Tower of Hanoi is completed.
• The Mahmoudiya Mosque in Jaffa, present-day Israel, is completed.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Tilman-François Suys.

Publications

• William Adam's Vitruvius Scoticus is published posthumously by his grandson William Adam of Blair Adam in Edinburgh.

Births

• March 1 - Augustus Pugin, English Gothic Revival architect, designer, artist and critic (died 1852)
• March 2 - Samuel Sanders Teulon, English Gothic Revival architect (died 1873)
• September 13 - John McMurtry, American builder and architect (died 1890)
• November 9 - Paul Abadie, French architect and building restorer (died 1884)

Deaths

• January 9 bapt. - Eduard van der Nüll, Viennese architect (suicide 1868)
• November 7 - Matvey Kazakov, Russian neoclassical architect (born 1738)
• date unknown - Cosimo Morelli, Italian neoclassical architect (born 1732)

References

1. Lewin, Henry Grote (1925). Early British Railways. A short history of their origin & development: 1801-1844. London: The Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd.
2. Awdry, Christopher, (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. London: Guild Publishing.