1859 in architecture
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The year 1859 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- May 28 â All Saints, Margaret Street, London, designed by William Butterfield, is consecrated.
- September 7 â "Big Ben" in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster in London completed by Sir Charles Barry to the designs of Augustus Pugin becomes fully operational.
- October 18 â New chapel at Exeter College, Oxford, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is dedicated.
- Red House in Bexleyheath, England designed by Philip Webb and William Morris.
- The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, founded by Peter Cooper is born with the completion of The Foundation Building, designed by Prussian-born architect and civil engineer Fred A. Petersen.[1]
- Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, designed by William Strickland, is completed.
- Third Vermont State House, designed by Thomas Silloway, in Montpelier, Vermont, United States, is completed.
- Vigadó of Pest (concert hall) in Hungary, designed by Frigyes Feszl, is built.
- Main cell block of Fremantle Prison in Western Australia, designed by Brevet Major Edmund Henderson, is completed.
- Needles Lighthouse on The Needles off the Isle of Wight, designed by James Walker, is built.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â George Gilbert Scott.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Charles Thierry and Louis Boitte.
Births
- February 13 â Zsigmond Quittner, Hungarian commercial architect (died 1918)
- March 3 â KonstantÄ«ns PÄkÅ¡Äns, Latvian architect (died 1928)
- August 7 â Fyodor Schechtel, Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer (died 1926)
- September 13 â Anton Rosen, Danish architect, furniture designer and decorative artist (died 1928)[2]
- November 29 â Cass Gilbert, American architect (died 1934)[3]
- December 15 â Stewart Henbest Capper, Manx-born Arts and Crafts architect (died 1925)
Deaths
- May 18 â William Donthorne, English architect, one of the founders of what becomes the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) (born 1799)
- September 15 â Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English railway civil and marine engineer and bridge builder (born 1806; stroke)[4]
- October 12 â Robert Stephenson, English railway civil and mechanical engineer (born 1803)
- December 12 â Thomas Alexander Tefft, American architect based in Providence, Rhode Island (born 1826)