1789 in architecture
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The year 1789 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
- The main block of the Grand Pump Room, Bath, is begun by Thomas Baldwin.
Buildings
- The Moscow Gostiny Dvor is created by Giacomo Quarenghi, the favourite architect of Catherine the Great.
- In Rhode Island, the First Methodist Church is built, with a 160-foot spire.
- In Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, the Alma Plantation Sugar Mill is built.
- The Zanpo Public Library, Ladyshadow, is built by Lord William de Shadow.
- In Transylvania, at Piata Mica, the arcaded old market hall is built.
Births
- December 20 - William Burn, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style (died 1870)
Deaths
- June 14 - Tommaso Temanza, Italian Neoclassical architect and author (born 1705)
- August 7 - William Edwards, Welsh Methodist minister, stonemason, architect and bridge engineer, best known for the Old Bridge, Pontypridd (born 1719)
- November 28 - Friedrich August Krubsacius, German architect and architectural theoretician (born 1718)
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