1794 in architecture

none 1794 architecture The year 1794 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events date unknown – French confectioner Louis Jules Benois, forefather of the Benois family of artists, musicians, and architects, arrives in Russia following the French Revolution. Construction of houses on the edge of Blackheath, London, designed by Michael Searles, begins: The Paragon (a crescent), South Row and Montpelier Row; they will be completed in 1805. The interior of St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig in Saxony is remodeled by Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe in the neoclassical style. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1794 Buildings thumb|San Carlos Borromeo Needle of Rijswijk, monument at Forest of Rijswijk, Netherlands.nlThe Needle of Rijswijk https://web.archive.org/web/20111001013943/https://www.rijswijk.nl/Configuratie/Fotoarchief/Beeldbank/N/De_naald_van_Rijswijk 2011-10-01 at the municipal website Fru Haugans Hotel, Mosjøen, Norway. The second Royal Presidio Chapel at the Presidio of Monterey in Spanish Alta California. The chapel, now known as the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo, is the first stone building in the province. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The Radcliffe Observatory building at Oxford, England. Mumbles Lighthouse, Swansea, Wales.http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses/mumbles.html Mumbles Trinity House April 12, 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110414061333/http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses/mumbles.html April 14, 2011 Births August 30 – John Rennie the Younger, English civil engineer (died 1874) October 26 – Konstantin Thon, Russian imperial architect during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I (died 1881) Deaths February 23 – James Playfair, Scottish Neoclassical architect (born 1755; consumption)Notice of 24th February 1794, Edinburgh Evening Courant. Accessed 9 March 2014 February 27 – Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French architect and structural engineer (born 1708) April 10 – Antonio Rinaldi, Italian architect working in Russia (born 1710) July 8 – Richard Mique, French Neoclassical architect (born 1728)Higonnet, Patrice, 2002. "Mique, the architect of royal intimacy" in Michael Conon, Bourgeois and Aristocratic Encounters in Garden Art (Dumbarton Oaks) October 20 – James Adam, Scottish architect and furniture designer, brother of Robert Adam (born 1732)Parissien, Steven (1992) Adam Style, Phaidon, 0-7148-2727-4 References Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:1790s architecture