1876 in architecture
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The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings opened
- August - The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper.[1]
Buildings completed
Swan House
- Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan.[2]
- Government House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Wardell.
- Kaahumanu Church, Hawai'i, built by Rev Edward Bailey.
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt.
- Swan House (Chelsea Embankment), London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
- Nádasdy Mansion, Nádasdladány, Hungary, designed by István Linzbauer and Alajos Hauszmann.
- The Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station in London, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is fully completed.
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - John Louis Duc.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Blondel.
Births
- May 18 - Thorvald Astrup, Norwegian industrial architect (died 1940)
- June 26 - Vincent Harris, English architect (died 1971)
- October 24 - Paul Philippe Cret, French-American architect and industrial designer (died 1945)
- November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (died 1937)
Deaths
- May 7 - David Bryce, Scottish architect (b. 1803),[3]
- August 21 - Ildefons Cerdà, Catalan Spanish urban planner (born 1815)
- date unknown - Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French architect (b. 1808)
References
- ↑ "The Bayreuth Festival Theatre". The history of the Bayreuth Festival. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
- ↑ (in Russian)
- ↑ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved December 27, 2010.