1876 in architecture
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The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- February 2 â Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bury, England, designed by J. S. Crowther.
- August â The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper.[1]
- Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.
Buildings completed
- R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, considered to be "one of Richardson's greatest buildings"[2]
- Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan.[3]
- Government House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Wardell.
- Kaahumanu Church, Hawai'i, built by Rev Edward Bailey.
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt.
- Swan House (Chelsea Embankment), London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
- Nádasdy Mansion, Nádasdladány, Hungary, designed by István Linzbauer and Alajos Hauszmann.
- The Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station in London, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is fully completed.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Joseph-Louis Duc.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Blondel.
Births
- March 27 â A. E. Lefcourt, born Abraham Elias Lefkowitz, English-born New York real estate developer (died 1932)
- May 18 â Thorvald Astrup, Norwegian industrial architect (died 1940)
- June 26 â Vincent Harris, English architect (died 1971)
- October 24 â Paul Philippe Cret, French-American architect and industrial designer (died 1945)
- November 24 â Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (died 1937)
Deaths
- May 7 â David Bryce, Scottish architect (b. 1803),[4]
- August 21 â Ildefons Cerdà , Catalan Spanish urban planner (born 1815)
- date unknown â Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French architect (b. 1808)