1800 in architecture
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The year 1800 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
King's Inns, Dublin
- June 30 - Replacement Teatro Riccardi opera house in Bergamo, Lombardy, designed by Giovanni Francesco Lucchini, is opened.
- November 1 - The White House in Washington D.C., United States is completed. However, the porticoes are not added until 1825.
- The King's Inns in Dublin, designed by James Gandon, are completed.
- Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral in Chile is completed.
Publications
- Birch's Views of Philadelphia published.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Simon Vallot and Jean-François-Julien Mesnager.
Births
- February 27 - Robert Willis, English mechanical engineer, phonetician and architectural historian (died 1875)
- August 17 - Isaiah Rogers, American architect (died 1869)
- September 30 - Decimus Burton, English architect (died 1881)
- December 4 - Louis Dupasquier, French architect (died 1870)
Deaths
- May 21 - Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author and neoclassical architect (born 1745)
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