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1851 architecture
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
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1851
Buildings opened
thumb|The Crystal Palace
February 5 – Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and Rectory, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, designed by Thomas Alexander Tefft.History of the State of Rhode Island, with illustrations Hong, Wade & Co Philadelphia 1878 The History of Smithfield 306–311
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 – Madonna dell'Archetto, Rome Italy.http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CDOC-103sdoc27/pdf/GPO-CDOC-103sdoc27-10-2.pdf The Italian Years Pellegrino Nazzaro 21 Constantino Brumidi: Artist of the Capitol U.S. Government Printing Office 2000 Washington, D.C.
July 25 – Holy Trinity Church, Bangalore, India.http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20110207201102070138103485f49208c/Churchill-prayed-here.html https://archive.today/20130117135252/http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20110207201102070138103485f49208c/Churchill-prayed-here.html dead 2013-01-17 Churchill prayed here Bangalore Mirror.
October 1 – Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama.
Buildings completed
thumb|Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England
Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, designed by Prince Albert in consultation with builder Thomas Cubitt.Struthers, Jane (2004). Royal Palaces of Britain. London: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd. 1-84330-733-2.
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 – The Four Elements of Architecture, part 1
Edmund Sharpe – The Seven Periods of English Architecture.
Awards
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Thomas Leverton Donaldson.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet.
Births
March 10 – Heinrich Wenck, Danish architect (died 1936)
March 26 – John Eisenmann, Cleveland-based US architect (died 1924)
June 29 – (Edmund) Peter Paul Pugin, English architect, son of Augustus Welby Pugin and half-brother of Edward Welby Pugin (died 1904)http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100209 Pugin The Dictionary of Scottish Architects. 2014-06-29 2017-02-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20170213002934/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100209 dead
Deaths
October 13 – Samuel Beazley, British theatre architect and writer (born 1786)Beazley, Samuel
October 25 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (born 1779)
November 18 – Jacob Ephraim Polzin, German Neoclassical architect (born 1778)
References
Architecture
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