1851 in architecture
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The year 1851 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- Missions Héliographiques established by Prosper Mérimée to photograph historical French architecture.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- February 5 â Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and Rectory, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, designed by Thomas Alexander Tefft.[1]
- May 1
- The Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition, erected in Hyde Park, London to the design of Joseph Paxton.
- Permanent Windsor Riverside railway station in England completed to the design of William Tite.
- May 31 â Madonna dell'Archetto, Rome Italy.[2]
- July 25 â Holy Trinity Church, Bangalore, India.[3]
- October 1 â Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama.
Buildings completed
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- Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, designed by Prince Albert in consultation with builder Thomas Cubitt.[4]
- Dock Tower in Grimsby, England.
- Donaldson's Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair.
- De Wachter, Zuidlaren, Netherlands.
- Wat San Chao Chet, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Stone Bastei Bridge, Saxony.
Buildings commenced
- St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, Hungary, designed by Miklós Ybl.
- Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasa in Khiva, Uzbekistan.
- Hurstpierpoint College in England, designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter.
Publications
- Gottfried Semper â The Four Elements of Architecture, part 1
- Edmund Sharpe â The Seven Periods of English Architecture.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Thomas Leverton Donaldson.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture â Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet.
Births
- March 10 â Heinrich Wenck, Danish architect (died 1936)
- March 26 â John Eisenmann, Cleveland-based US architect (died 1924)
- June 29 â (Edmund) Peter Paul Pugin, English architect, son of Augustus Welby Pugin and half-brother of Edward Welby Pugin (died 1904)[5]
Deaths
- October 13 â Samuel Beazley, British theatre architect and writer (born 1786)[6]
- October 25 â Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (born 1779)
- November 18 â Jacob Ephraim Polzin, German Neoclassical architect (born 1778)