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Overview of the events of 1829 in architecture
The year 1829 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures Buildings Old General Post Office, London The General Post Office building in St Martins-le-Grand in the City of London , designed by Robert Smirke , is completed (replaced c.1912).[1] [2]
Work begins on the Travellers' Club in London , designed by Charles Barry .
Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara , Mexico , designed by Manuel Tolsá , is completed.The new building of the Royal High School, Edinburgh , Scotland on Calton Hill , designed by Thomas Hamilton , is opened.[3]
Eastern State Penitentiary , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , designed by John Haviland , is opened.Central Congregational Church (Eastport, Maine) is built.St Peter's Church, Hammersmith , London, designed by Edward Lapidge , is consecrated.The Oratory, Liverpool , England, designed by John Foster , is built.Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara , MexicoConstruction of the National Monument of Scotland in Edinburgh , designed by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair , is abandoned due to funds being exhausted, leaving only a row of Doric columns supporting the entablature .
Cromer Hall in England, designed by William Donthorne , is built.Octagon House (Columbus, Georgia) is built.Sferisterio di Macerata in Italy, designed by Ireneo Aleandri, is completed.Construction of Cisternoni of Livorno in Italy, designed by Pasquale Poccianti, begins (completed 1848 ).
Kvitsøy Lighthouse in Norway is built.Carrollton Viaduct on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad , designed by James Lloyd, is completed.Awards Births Deaths References
^ Brandwood, Geoff, ed. (2010). Living, Leisure and Law: Eight Building Types in England 1800–1914 . Reading: Spire Books. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-904965-27-5 ^ Summerson, John (1991). Architecture in Britain 1530–1830 (8th ed.). Pelican Books. p. 473.^ "History of Edinburgh" . Visions of Scotland . Retrieved 2014-08-02 .
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