1853 in architecture

none 1853 architecture The year 1853 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events June 30 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as préfect of the Seine (department) to begin the re-planning of Paris. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1853 Buildings thumb |right|Fastnet Lighthouse Fastnet Rock Lighthouse is completed at the most southerly point of Ireland. The New York Crystal Palace is constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City. The New York Cotton Exchange building is completed in New York City. Rhode Island Tool Company building is completed in Providence, Rhode Island. Charlbury railway station in Oxfordshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened.Gordon Biddle Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites Oxford University Press 2003 0-19-866247-5 Awards RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Smirke. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Arthur-Stanislas Diet. Births February 26 – Antonio Rivas Mercado, Mexican architect, engineer and restorer (died 1927)Turner, Jane 1996 The Dictionary of Art https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofart06turn registration New York Grove's Dictionaries 1-884446-00-0 June 21 – Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist (died 1930) August 28 (August 16 O.S.) – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian structural engineer (died 1939) September 11 – Stanford White, American architect (died 1906)Baker, Paul R. Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White The Free Press New York 1989 0-02-901781-5 registration https://archive.org/details/stannygildedlife00bake Deaths December 12 – William Nichols, English-born American Neoclassical architect (born 1780)Mellown, Robert O. Peatross, C. Ford 1979 William Nichols, architect Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Art Gallery 1–6 References Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture