1882 in architecture
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The year 1882 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- March 19 â Construction work begins on the church of Sagrada FamÃlia in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, to the design of Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano; it is scheduled for completion to the design of Antoni Gaudà in 2026.
- September 30 â Dedication of Hearthstone House, in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, the first residential building to be powered by a centrally located hydroelectric station using the Edison system.
- Construction work begins on the Catholic church of St John the Baptist, Norwich, England, to the design of George Gilbert Scott Jr., who converted to Catholicism two years earlier; it will be consecrated in 1910, and again as a cathedral in 1976.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- March 4 â Forth Bridge, Scotland opened.[1]
- June 29 â Russian Monument, Sofia, unveiled.
- September 8 â St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore, India, designed by Rev. L. E. Kleiner, consecrated.[2]
- October â Conservative Club, Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Robert Rowand Anderson.
- October 10 â Selwyn College, Cambridge, England, designed by Arthur Blomfield.
- December 25 â Hotel Roanoke, a luxury hotel in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway.
Buildings completed
- Hotel Gaillard, Paris, designed by Jules Février.
- Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (palm house) in Vienna.
- Pro-Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul in Tunis.
- Church of St Mary Magdalene, East Moors, Helmsley, North Yorkshire, England, completed by Temple Moore to a design by George Gilbert Scott Jr.[3]
- Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.
- Normand Memorial Hall, Dysart, Scotland, designed by Robert Rowand Anderson.
- A six-story architectural folly, Elephant Bazaar, later renamed as "Lucy the Elephant", constructed by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey, United States.
Awards
Births
- January 2 â Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps, prolific Nevada architect (died 1969)[4]
- January 3 â David Adler, Jewish-American architect practising in Chicago (died 1949)[5]
- May 17 â Karl Burman, Estonian architect and painter (died 1965)
- July 2 â Francis Conroy Sullivan, Canadian architect (died 1929)
- July 25 â Wolff Schoemaker, Dutch Art Deco architect (died 1949)
- October 12 â Leslie Wilkinson, Australian architect (died 1973)
- December 12 â Edward Maufe, English architect (died 1974)
Deaths
- June 29 â Joseph Hansom, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1803)
- December 4 â Virginio Vespignani, Italian architect (born 1808)