1866 in architecture
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The year 1866 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- The building of Nationalgalerie starts in Berlin, designed by Friedrich August Stüler and Johann Heinrich Strack.
- The New Synagogue, Berlin, Germany is completed by Friedrich August Stüler to the design of Eduard Knoblauch.
- St. Mark's Church, Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, designed by Robert Lewis Roumieu, is consecrated.
- The Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Australia by architect William Pitt is completed.
- The Plaka Bridge in Greece is completed by Kostas Bekas.[1]
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Matthew Digby Wyatt.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Louis Pascal.
Births
- February 15 - Banister Fletcher, English architect and architectural historian (died 1953)
- February 23 - Joseph Miller Huston, American architect working in Pennsylvania (died 1940)
- June 14 - Henry Sproatt, Canadian architect (died 1934)
- July 14 - Ragnar Östberg, Swedish architect (died 1945)
- July 29 - Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland, Norwegian architect (died 1926)
- August 1 - Claude Fayette Bragdon, American architect (died 1946)
- November 28 - Henry Bacon, American Beaux-Arts architect (died 1924)
Deaths
- March 23 - Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolor painter (born 1814)
References
- ↑ Leftheris, B. P. et al. (2006). "A bridge built in 1866 in Plaka, Greece". Computational Mechanics for Heritage Structures. Southampton, UK: WIT Press. pp. 147–153. ISBN 1-84564-034-9.