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1876 in architecture

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1876 in architecture

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The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • February 2 – Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bury, England, designed by J. S. Crowther.
  • August – The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper.
  • Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.

Buildings completed

R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut
Swan House
  • R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, considered to be "one of Richardson's greatest buildings"
  • Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan.
  • Government House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Wardell.
  • Kaahumanu Church, Hawai'i, built by Rev Edward Bailey.
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt.
  • Swan House (Chelsea Embankment), London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
  • Nádasdy Mansion, Nádasdladány, Hungary, designed by István Linzbauer and Alajos Hauszmann.
  • The Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station in London, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is fully completed.

Awards

  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Joseph-Louis Duc.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Blondel.

Births

  • March 27 – A. E. Lefcourt, born Abraham Elias Lefkowitz, English-born New York real estate developer (died 1932)
  • May 18 – Thorvald Astrup, Norwegian industrial architect (died 1940)
  • June 26 – Vincent Harris, English architect (died 1971)
  • October 24 – Paul Philippe Cret, French-American architect and industrial designer (died 1945)
  • November 24 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (died 1937)

Deaths

  • May 7 – David Bryce, Scottish architect (b. 1803),{{cite book |last1=Waterston |first1=Charles D |last2=Macmillan Shearer
  • August 21 – Ildefons Cerdà, Catalan Spanish urban planner (born 1815)
  • date unknown – Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French architect (b. 1808)

References

References

  1. "The Bayreuth Festival Theatre". Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH.
  2. (3 June 2007). "Cheney Building (1876)".
  3. [http://orthodox-newspaper.ru/numbers/at45849 (in Russian)]
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