1826_in_architecture
1826 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1826 in architecture
The year 1826 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings opened
- January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge over the Menai Strait in Wales, designed by Thomas Telford.
- December 17 – Helsinki Old Church, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel.
Buildings completed
- Cathedral of Chihuahua, Mexico.
- The Bank of England in London, designed by Sir John Soane.
- Cumberland Terrace in London, designed by John Nash and John Thompson.
- Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Potsdam, a very early example of Byzantine Revival architecture designed by Vasily Stasov.
- Stadttempel, Vienna, Austria.[1]
- Sofienbad, Vienna, Austria.
- April 11 – Thomas Worthington, English architect based in Manchester (died 1909)
- July 18 – Edward Habershon, English architect (died 1900)
- August 2 — Thomas Alexander Tefft, American architect based in Providence, Rhode Island (died 1859)
- August 16 – Thomas Seaton Scott, Canadian architect (died 1895)
- March 1 – Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect and city planner (born 1766)[2]
- July 4 – Thomas Jefferson, American polymath and neoclassical architect (born 1743)[3]
- "The Stadttempel Synagogue, Vienna". Beth Hatefutsoth. Retrieved 2009-07-04.[dead link]
- Brownlee, David B. (1986). "Chapter 1". Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Brodie, Fawn (1974). Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 87–88.