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1876 architecture
The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1876
Buildings opened
February 2 – Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bury, England, designed by J. S. Crowther.
August – The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper.http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/documents/_the_bayreuth_festival_theatre_341.html The Bayreuth Festival Theatre The history of the Bayreuth Festival Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH 2009-12-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20101021011654/http://bayreuther-festspiele.de/documents/_the_bayreuth_festival_theatre_341.html 2010-10-21 dead
Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.
Buildings completed
thumb|R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut
thumb|upright|Swan House
R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, considered to be "one of Richardson's greatest buildings"Cheney Building (1876) https://historicbuildingsct.com/the-cheney-building-1876/ Historic Buildings of Connecticut 3 June 2007 13 October 2020
Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan.(in Russian)
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 – Joseph-Louis Duc.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Blondel.
Births
March 27 – A. E. Lefcourt, born Abraham Elias Lefkowitz, English-born New York real estate developer (died 1932)
May 18 – Thorvald Astrup, Norwegian industrial architect (died 1940)
June 26 – Vincent Harris, English architect (died 1971)
October 24 – Paul Philippe Cret, French-American architect and industrial designer (died 1945)
November 24 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (died 1937)
Deaths
May 7 – David Bryce, Scottish architect (b. 1803),Waterston Charles D Macmillan Shearer A Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf December 27, 2010 I July 2006 The Royal Society of Edinburgh Edinburgh 978-0-902198-84-5 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20061004113545/http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf October 4, 2006
August 21 – Ildefons Cerdà, Catalan Spanish urban planner (born 1815)
date unknown – Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French architect (b. 1808)
References
Architecture
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