1824 in architecture

The year 1824 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Park Square, London, east side

• The Second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, designed by William Strickland, is completed.
• Camden Chapel, Camden Town, London, designed by William and Henry Inwood, is completed.
• Commissioners' churches in London completed:
  • St Anne's Church, Wandsworth, designed by Robert Smirke.
  • St Luke's Church, Chelsea, designed by James Savage.
  • St Mark's Church, Kennington.
  • St Mary's, Bryanston Square, designed by Robert Smirke.
• St Matthew's Church, Brixton, London, designed by Charles F. Porden, is completed.
• St Andrew's Church, Liverpool, England, designed by Daniel Stewart and John Foster, is opened.^[1]
• St James' Church, Sydney, Australia, designed by Francis Greenway, is consecrated.
• The Edinburgh Academy in Scotland, designed by William Burn, is opened.
• The Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, designed by Alexander Parris, is opened.
• The Chatham Garden Theatre in New York City, designed by George Conklin, is opened.
• The Kurhaus of Baden-Baden in Germany is designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
• Park Square, London, designed by John Nash, is completed.
• Abbotsford House in Scotland is completed for Sir Walter Scott.
• Final remodelling of the houses that will become Sir John Soane's Museum in London by Soane is completed.
• Reconstruction of Windsor Castle, England, to the design of Jeffry Wyattville, commences.
• Windsor Bridge across the River Thames in England, designed by Charles Hollis, is opened.
• Aldford Iron Bridge across the River Dee in Cheshire, England, designed by Thomas Telford, is completed.
• Pochtamtsky Bridge in Saint Petersburg (pedestrian suspension), designed by Wilhelm von Traitteur and Christianovich, is completed.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henri Labrouste.

Births

• April 4 – Edmund Wright, English-born Australian architect (died 1888)
• June 20 – George Edmund Street, English architect (died 1881)
• Approximate date – Charles Henry Howell, English architect specialising in lunatic asylums (died 1905)

Deaths

• October 26 – Joseph Bénard, French architect (born 1764)

References