1876 in architecture

The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• February 2 – Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bury, England, designed by J. S. Crowther.
• August – The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper.[1]
• Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.

Buildings completed

R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut

Swan House

• R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, considered to be "one of Richardson's greatest buildings"[2]
• Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan.[3]
• Government House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Wardell.
• Kaahumanu Church, Hawai'i, built by Rev Edward Bailey.
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt.
• Swan House (Chelsea Embankment), London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
• Nádasdy Mansion, Nádasdladány, Hungary, designed by István Linzbauer and Alajos Hauszmann.
• The Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station in London, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is fully completed.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Joseph-Louis Duc.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Blondel.

Births

• March 27 – A. E. Lefcourt, born Abraham Elias Lefkowitz, English-born New York real estate developer (died 1932)
• May 18 – Thorvald Astrup, Norwegian industrial architect (died 1940)
• June 26 – Vincent Harris, English architect (died 1971)
• October 24 – Paul Philippe Cret, French-American architect and industrial designer (died 1945)
• November 24 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (died 1937)

Deaths

• May 7 – David Bryce, Scottish architect (b. 1803),[4]
• August 21 – Ildefons Cerdà, Catalan Spanish urban planner (born 1815)
• date unknown – Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French architect (b. 1808)

References

1. "The Bayreuth Festival Theatre". The history of the Bayreuth Festival. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH. Archived from the original on 2010-10-21. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
2. "Cheney Building (1876)". Historic Buildings of Connecticut. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
3. (in Russian)
4. Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index (PDF). I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2006. Retrieved December 27, 2010.