1810 in architecture
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The year 1810 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- February 10 â Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater, Ukraine, designed by Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, opened.
- November 30 â St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, Canada inaugurated.
Buildings completed
- St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally, India (original building).
- BasÃlica del SantÃsimo Sacramento, Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, designed by Tomás Toribio.
- Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange, Russia, designed by Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, completed.
- Commercial Rooms, Bristol, England, designed by Charles Busby.
- City hall, Groningen, Netherlands, designed by Jacob Otten Husly in 1775, completed.
- Northgate, Chester, England, designed by Thomas Harrison.
- Old Market, Dominica.
- Gignac Bridge, France, designed by Bertrand Garipuy in 1776, completed by Billoin and Fontenay.
Events
- Rebuilding of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Births
- June 19 â Charles Wilson, Scottish neoclassical architect (died 1863)
- February 24 â William Mason, English-born New Zealand architect (died 1897)
- April 1 â Benjamin Ferrey, English architect (died 1880)[1]
- date unknown â John Notman, Scottish-born American architect (died 1865)[2]
Deaths
- January 19 â Jan Ferdynand Nax, Polish architect, economist and social reformer (born 1736)
- January 23 â Francesco Piranesi, Italian engraver, etcher and architect (born 1756 or 1758)
