1829 in architecture

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The year 1829 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Old General Post Office, London

• The General Post Office building in St Martins-le-Grand in the City of London, designed by Robert Smirke, is completed (replaced c.1912).^[1][2]
• Work begins on the Travellers' Club in London, designed by Charles Barry.
• Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico, designed by Manuel Tolsá, is completed.
• The new building of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland on Calton Hill, designed by Thomas Hamilton, is opened.^[3]
• Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by John Haviland, is opened.
• Central Congregational Church (Eastport, Maine) is built.
• St Peter's Church, Hammersmith, London, designed by Edward Lapidge, is consecrated.
• The Oratory, Liverpool, England, designed by John Foster, is built.
• Construction of the National Monument of Scotland in Edinburgh, designed by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair, is abandoned due to funds being exhausted, leaving only a row of Doric columns supporting the entablature.
• Cromer Hall in England, designed by William Donthorne, is built.
• Octagon House (Columbus, Georgia) is built.
• Sferisterio di Macerata in Italy, designed by Ireneo Aleandri, is completed.
• Construction of Cisternoni of Livorno in Italy, designed by Pasquale Poccianti, begins (completed 1848).
• Kvitsøy Lighthouse in Norway is built.
• Carrollton Viaduct on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, designed by James Lloyd, is completed.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux.

Births

• February 8 - Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect (died 1914)
• March 4 - Hermann Ende, German architect (died 1907)
• March 6 - Arthur Blomfield, English architect (died 1899)
• June 18 - Edmund George Lind, English-born American architect (died 1909)
• Charles Babcock, American architect (died 1913)
• George Corson, Scottish-born architect working in Leeds (died 1910)
• William Henry Lynn, Irish architect (died 1915)
• William Martin, English architect working in Birmingham (died 1900)

Deaths

• March 14 - Francis Johnston, Irish architect (born 1760)
• March 29 - Thomas Harrison, English architect and bridge engineer (born 1744)
• November 1 - George Allen Underwood, English architect working in Cheltenham (born 1793)

References

1. Brandwood, Geoff, ed. (2010). Living, Leisure and Law: Eight Building Types in England 1800-1914. Reading: Spire Books. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-904965-27-5.
2. Summerson, John (1991). Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (8th ed.). Pelican Books. p. 473.
3. "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-02.