1817 in architecture

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The year 1817 in architecture involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Buildings
2 Publications
3 Awards
4 Births

Buildings

Dulwich Picture Gallery in London designed by Sir John Soane as the first purpose-built art gallery.
In Nassau, the lighthouse on Hog Island is built, replacing the light at Fort Pincastle (built in 1793).
Church of St. James the Great in Dudley, designed by Thomas Lee, is completed although is not opened until 1823.

Publications

Thomas Rickman - An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture.

Awards

Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

January 6 - James Joseph McCarthy (died 1882)