1817 in architecture

The year 1817 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Dulwich Picture Gallery

• Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as the first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened.
• The Second Bank of the United States, in Philadelphia, designed by William Strickland, starts to operate.
• In Nassau, Bahamas, the lighthouse on Hog Island is built, replacing that at Fort Pincastle (built in 1793).
• Church of St. James the Great, Sedgley, in the Black Country of England, designed by Thomas Lee, is completed although not opened until 1823.

Publications

• Thomas Rickman - An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Garnaud.

Births

• January 6 - James Joseph McCarthy, Irish architect (died 1882)
• April 9 - Alexander Thomson, Scottish Greek Revival architect (died 1875)
• April 15 - John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon, English Gothic Revival architect (died 1877)
• May 19 - George John Vulliamy, English architect (died 1886)

Deaths

• July 19 - John Palmer, English architect working in Bath (born c.1738)
• September 8 - John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
• November 5 - Carl Haller von Hallerstein, German-born architect and archaeologist (born 1774)