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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.

Buildings completed

  • Palazzo Gavazzi, Milan, Italy, designed by Luigi Clerichetti.
  • 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.
  • Chota Imambara, Lucknow.

Awards

  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Toussaint Uchard.

Births

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  • 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

References

  1. (1990). "Milan". Istituto geografico de Agostini.
  2. (2006). "Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West". [[Yale University Press]].
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