1854 in architecture

The year 1854 in architecture involved some significant events and new buildings.

Buildings completed

Kościuszko Mound

• Church of St. Walburge, Preston, Lancashire, England, designed by Joseph Hansom (spire completed 1866).
• St George's Hall, Liverpool, England, completed by Charles Robert Cockerell to the design of Harvey Lonsdale Elmes.
• The Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland, erected in commemoration of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and the United States.
• The Wellington Monument, overlooking Wellington, Somerset, England, erected to celebrate the Duke of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo, completed by Henry Goodridge to the design of Thomas Lee.
• The Semper Gallery in Dresden, Germany, designed by Gottfried Semper.

St George's Hall, Liverpool

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Philip Hardwick
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer.

Publications

• Eugène Viollet-le-Duc begins publication of Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVe siècle

Births

• February 2 - Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect (died 1925)
• July 31 - George Franklin Barber, American architect, best known for his residential designs sold by mail order^[1] (died 1915)
• September 20 - Ruggero Berlam, Italian architect (died 1920)
• October 2 - Patrick Geddes, Scottish urban theorist (died 1932)
• November - Edward Hudson, English architectural publisher and patron (died 1936)

Deaths

• March 3 - James Blackburn English-born civil engineer, surveyor and architect, best known for his work in Australia (born 1803; fatally injured in fall from horse)^[2]

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