1853 in architecture
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The year 1853 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- June 30 - Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as préfect of the Seine (department) to begin the re-planning of Paris.
Buildings
Fastnet Lighthouse
- Fastnet Rock Lighthouse is completed at the most southerly point of Ireland.
- The New York Crystal Palace is constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
- The New York Cotton Exchange building is completed in New York City.
- Rhode Island Tool Company building is completed in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Charlbury railway station in Oxfordshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened.[1]
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Robert Smirke.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Arthur-Stanislas Diet.
Births
- February 26 - Antonio Rivas Mercado, Mexican architect, engineer and restorer (died 1927)[2]
- September 11 - Stanford White, US architect (died 1906)[3]
Deaths
- December 12 - William Nichols, English-born US Neoclassical architect (born 1780)[4]
References
- ↑ Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
- ↑ Turner, Jane (Ed.) (1996). The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. ISBN 1-884446-00-0.
- ↑ Baker, Paul R., Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White, The Free Press, NY 1989
- ↑ Mellown, Robert O.; Peatross, C. Ford (1979). William Nichols, architect. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Art Gallery. pp. 1–6.