1800 in architecture

The year 1800 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1800

Buildings

King's Inns, Dublin

• June 30 – Replacement Teatro Riccardi opera house in Bergamo, Lombardy, designed by Giovanni Francesco Lucchini, is opened.
• November 1 – The White House in Washington D.C., United States, is completed. However, the porticoes are not added until 1825. ^[1]
• The King's Inns in Dublin, designed by James Gandon, are completed.
• Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral in Chile is completed.
• East Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight, designed by John Nash for his own use, is completed.
• Tyringham Hall near Newport Pagnell in England, designed by John Soane, is completed.
• Gosford House in East Lothian, Scotland, is completed to the 1790 design of Robert Adam (died 1792).

Publications

• Birch's Views of Philadelphia published.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Simon Vallot and Jean-François-Julien Mesnager.

Births

• February 27 – Robert Willis, English mechanical engineer, phonetician and architectural historian (died 1875)
• August 17 – Isaiah Rogers, American architect (died 1869)
• September 30 – Decimus Burton, English architect (died 1881)
• December 4 – Louis Dupasquier  [ fr ], French architect (died 1870)

Deaths

• May 21 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author and neoclassical architect (born 1745)

References

1. "John Adams moves into White House". History.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2015.