1836 in architecture
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The year 1836 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- May 5 - St Ignatius Church, Preston, Lancashire, England, designed by Joseph John Scoles, is opened.[1]
- July 29 - The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, completed by Jean Chalgrin following the death of Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury, is inaugurated.
- October 4 - Rebuilt Christiania Theatre opens in Norway.
- Fleetwood Customs House in England, designed by Decimus Burton, is completed.
- Mexican Hothouse in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, by Charles Rohault de Fleury, is completed; an early example of French glass and metal architecture.
- Glynnwood Plantation is built in Glynn, near Pointe Coupee, Louisiana.[2]
- Inverness Castle, Scotland, designed by William Burn, is built.
Publications
- A. W. N. Pugin publishes his Contrasts, a treatise on the morality of Catholic Gothic architecture.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: François-Louis-Florimond Boulanger and Jean-Jacques Clerget.
Births
- March 20 - James Cubitt, English architect specialising in nonconformist chapels (died 1912)
Deaths
- June 7 - Henry A. Baker, Irish architect (born 1753)
References
- ↑ "St Ignatius, Preston - Roman Catholic". GENUKI. 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
- ↑ Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.