Overview of the events of 1812 in architecture
The year 1812 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures [ edit ] Buildings [ edit ] London's Egyptian Hall when new July 6 – The Laigh Milton Viaduct , built to carry the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in Scotland , is officially opened.[1] [2] October 10 – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , in London, designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt , the fourth theatre on the site, hosts its first production. Original Scottish Law Courts, Edinburgh , designed by Robert Reid , completed. Custom House, Leith , Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid, completed. HM Prison Perth , Scotland, designed by Robert Reid, completed. The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf , Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.) The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , London , designed by P. F. Robinson , is completed (demolished in 1905). St. John's Cathedral (Belize City) is completed, the first church to be built in the colony of British Honduras . The Flag Tower of Hanoi is completed. Temple of Diana , Valtice , Moravia, designed by Joseph Hardtmuth , is built. The Mahmoudiya Mosque in Jaffa, modern-day Israel, is completed. Castle Cottage, Newport-on-Tay , Scotland, is built. Publications [ edit ] January 10 – Georg Hermann Nicolai , German architect and academic (died 1881 ) March 1 – Augustus Pugin , English Gothic Revival architect, designer, artist and critic (died 1852 ) March 2 – Samuel Sanders Teulon , English Gothic Revival architect (died 1873 ) July 21 – Robert William Billings , British Gothic Revival architectural draughtsman and architect (died 1874 ) September 8 – Matthew Ellison Hadfield , English Gothic Revival architect (died 1885 ) September 13 – John McMurtry , American builder and architect (died 1890 ) October 21 – Richard Cromwell Carpenter , English Gothic Revival architect (died 1855 ) November 9 – Paul Abadie , French architect and building restorer (died 1884 ) References [ edit ] ^ Lewin, Henry Grote (1925). Early British Railways. A short history of their origin & development: 1801–1844 . London: The Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd. ^ Awdry, Christopher, (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . London: Guild Publishing.