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1838 in architecture
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1838 architecture
The year 1838 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1838
Buildings opened
April 8 – The British National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, London.
thumb|Chota Imambara, Lucknow
Buildings completed
Palazzo Gavazzi, Milan, Italy, designed by Luigi Clerichetti.Bucciotti Achille Bernardini Enzo Milan https://books.google.com/books?id=tUQsAQAAMAAJ 12 September 2012 1990 Istituto geografico de Agostini 978-88-402-0876-3 161
Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Canada, built by Scottish architect Thomas McKay.
Walton Hall, Cheshire, England, designed for Sir Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baronet, possibly by Edmund Sharpe.Pollard Richard Pevsner Nikolaus Nikolaus Pevsner The Buildings of England Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West Yale University Press 2006 New Haven; London 628 0-300-10910-5
Chota Imambara, Lucknow.
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Toussaint Uchard.
Births
thumb|upright|Charles Percier
January 23 – John James Clark, Australian architect (died 1915)
April 13 – J. D. Sedding, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1891)
May 16 – Thomas Forrester, New Zealand plasterer, draughtsman, architect and engineer (died 1907)
September 18 – Thomas Drew, Irish ecclesiastical architect (died 1910)
September 29 – Henry Hobson Richardson, American city architect (died 1886)
Deaths
September 5 – Charles Percier, French Neoclassical architect, interior decorator and designer (born 1764)
October 16 – William Vitruvius Morrison, Irish architect, son and collaborator of Sir Richard Morrison (born 1794)
References
Architecture
Category:Architecture by year
Category:19th-century architecture