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1799 In Architecture
The year 1799 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * May 9 – St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in New York City, built by John McComb, Jr., is consecrated. * Gracie Mansion in New York City, designed by John McComb, Jr., is built. * The Chester Shot Tower, a grade-II*-listed shot tower, is built in the Boughton district of Chester, England. * In New Orleans, The Cabildo (first phase) is completed (begun in 1795). * Reconstruction of Town Hall, Vilnius, by Laurynas Gucevičius is completed. * Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, England, designed by James Wyatt, is completed. * Grand Pump Room, Bath, England, designed by Thomas Baldwin and John Palmer, is completed * Hjo Church in Sweden is completed. Births * Approximate date – William Thomas, English-born architect working in Canada (died 1860) Deaths * February 6 – Étienne-Louis Boullée, French neoclassical architect (born 1728) * April 17 – Richard Jupp, English arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaleski Town Hall In Vilnius
Zaleski (feminine Zaleska, plural ''Zalescy'') is a Polish surname. At the beginning of the 1990s there were approximately 4322 people in Poland with this surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander M. Zaleski (1906-1975), U.S. Catholic Bishop * Anthony Florian Zaleski (1913–1997), American two-time world middleweight boxing champion * August Zaleski (1883–1972), Polish diplomat, historian, President of Poland in Exile * Bronisław Zaleski (1819 or 1820–1880), Polish writer * Carol Zaleski, American author, professor of religious studies * Jan Zaleski (1869–1932), Polish biochemist * (1926–1981), Polish philologist, historian of language, numismatist * Jerod Zaleski (born 1989), Canadian football player * Józef Bohdan Zaleski (1802–1886), Polish poet * Krzysztof Zaleski, Polish actor * Ladislaus Michael Zaleski (1852–1925), Polish prelate, Apostolic Delegate to the East-Indies and Latin Patriarch of Antioch, botanist * Leon Zaleski (c. 1810–184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baldwin (architect)
Thomas Baldwin (c.1750 – 7 March 1820) was an English architect in the city of Bath, who was responsible for designing some of Bath's principal Georgian buildings. In 1775, he was appointed as the official Bath City Architect. In this role he designed Guildhall, Argyle Street, Laura Place, Great Pulteney Street and many others. In 1793, he was dismissed for financial irregularities, and as a result he was forced into bankruptcy and his reputation was ruined. Jane Root, biographer of Baldwin, writes; "he had a history not merely of imprudence, but of deliberate dishonesty". Career Baldwin was born in 1749 or 1750. His place of birth is not recorded, however, he was not native to Bath. He was first recorded in the city of Bath in 1774. He was initially a clerk (later builder and assistant) to plumber, glazier, and politician Thomas Warr Attwood. By 1775, he was appointed as the Bath City Architect after Attwood's death. During the construction of the Guildhall he was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 Works
Events January–June * January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound, to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars. * January 17 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. * January 21 – The Parthenopean Republic is established in Naples by French General Jean Étienne Championnet; King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies flees. * February 9 – Quasi-War: In the single-ship action of USS ''Constellation'' vs ''L'Insurgente'' in the Caribbean, the American ship is the victor. * February 28 – French Revolutionary Wars: Action of 28 February 1799 – British Royal Navy frigate HMS ''Sybille'' defeats the French frigate ''Forte'', off the mouth of the Hooghly River in the Bay of Bengal, but both captains are killed. * March 1 – Federalist James Ross becomes President pro tempore of the United States Senate. * Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1720 In Architecture
The year 1720 in architecture involved some significant events. Events *First Prix de Rome in architecture awarded in France to Antoine Derizet. *Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù converted into a theatre. Buildings and structures Buildings * Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University) is completed. * Rebuilding of All Saints Church, Oxford (in The High) is completed to designs by Henry Aldrich with tower and spire probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor. * 213 and 215 King's Road, Chelsea, London. * Baroque remodelling of the Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna, probably by Anton Erhard Martinelli. * Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple in Bârsana, Romania (one of the wooden churches of Maramureș). * Replacement wooden Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva, Ukraine. * Schloss Bruchsal in Baden is commissioned from Anselm von Grünstein. Births * March 22 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799) * October 4 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas-Henri Jardin
Nicolas-Henri Jardin (22 March 1720 – 31 August 1799) was a French architect. Born in St. Germain des Noyers, Seine-et-Marne, Jardin worked seventeen years in Denmark–Norway as an architect to the Danish royal court. He introduced neoclassicism to Denmark–Norway. Early training and student tour to Italy According to Jardin's own statement he began his architectural studies at the age of ten. It is confirmed by independent source that he started his training at the French Academy of Architecture (''Académie royale d'architecture'') no later than in 1738, perhaps before. He studied under A.C. Mollet, and won the grand prize (''Prix de Rome'') for architecture at 22 years of age for his design of a choir or chancel in a cathedral. The prize won him a travel stipend, which he used to travel to Italy in 1744. There he studied at the French Academy in Rome 1744-1748, while living at the Academy's pension. At the same time he studied mathematics and geometry with Jesuit prie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1745 In Architecture
This is a list of events related to architecture in 1745. Events Buildings and structures Buildings * The Great Lavra Bell Tower, the main bell tower of the ancient cave monastery of Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Kiev (modern-day capital of Ukraine), designed by Johann Gottfried Schädel, is completed (begun 1731). * Construction of the Wieskirche in Bavaria, designed by Dominikus Zimmermann, is begun (structure completed 1754) Births *May 5 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author and neoclassical architect (died 1800) *July 20 – Henry Holland, English architect (died 1806) * Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (died 1819) Deaths * February 23 – Joseph Effner, German architect and decorator (born 1687) * June 13 – Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Neapolitan painter, sculptor and architect (died 1678) * October 15 – Maximilian von Welsch, German baroque architect (born 1671) * November 16 – Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquín Toesca
Gioacchino Toesca e Ricci (1745–1799; known as Joaquín Toesca in the Spanish Empire) was an Italian architect who worked at the service of the Spanish Empire, mainly in Chile. He was mainly a Neoclassical architect although he also built Baroque buildings. Biography Gioacchino Toesca was born in 1745 in Rome. He studied architecture as a student of Francesco Sabatini and at the age of 15, he moved to Madrid and later completed his studies in mathematics in Barcelona. Chilean architecture In 1780 he traveled to South America, to Santiago in the colonial Captaincy General of Chile at the request of the Royal Governor Agustín de Jáuregui and the Archbishop Santiago Manuel de Alday y Aspée, who engaged him to design the ''Catedral de Santiago de Chile'' (present day Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral). In addition to this project he was also occupied in developing the plans for the '' Palacio de la Moneda'' to house the royal mint, which later became Chile's presidential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Jupp
Richard Jupp (1728 – 17 April 1799) was an 18th-century English architect, particularly associated with buildings in and around London. He served for many years (c. 1755 – 1799) as surveyor to the British East India Company. Works His work included: * alterations to St Matthias Old Church, Poplar, London (1755) * Manor House, (Old Road, Lee, London (1772) - now a Grade II listed building) – built for a wealthy London West India merchant, Thomas Lucas, president of Guy's Hospital, but bought in 1796 by Sir Francis Baring, founder of Barings Bank, it is now used as a public library and its gardens have become a public park (Manor House Gardens). * Mansion at Painshill Park, near Cobham, Surrey (1774) * Entrance and wings of Guy's Hospital, London (1774–1777) * Wilton Park House, near Beaconsfield (c. 1780) * a folly, Severndroog Castle (built as a memorial to Commodore Sir William James – a former chairman of the East India Company), on Shooter's Hill in south-east L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1728 In Architecture
The year 1728 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * October 20–23 – Copenhagen Fire of 1728. Buildings and structures Buildings * Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Expectación in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, is completed. * Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh (died 1726), is completed. * White Lodge, Richmond Park, near London, designed by Roger Morris, is completed as Stone Lodge. * St John's, Smith Square in London, designed by Thomas Archer, is completed for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches. Publications * James Gibbs' ''A Book of Architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments'' is published in London, including a version of the Gibbs surround. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine-Victor Desmarais. Births * February 12 – Étienne-Louis Boullée (died 1799) * February 25 – John Wood, the Younger (died 1782) * July 3 – Robert Adam (died 1792) * Richard Jupp (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée (12 February 17284 February 1799) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects. Life Born in Paris, he studied under Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Boffrand and Jean-Laurent Le Geay, from whom he learned the mainstream French Classical architecture in the 17th and 18th century and the Neoclassicism that evolved after the mid century. He was elected to the Académie Royale d'Architecture in 1762 and became chief architect to Frederick II of Prussia, a largely honorary title. He designed a number of private houses from 1762 to 1778, though most of these no longer exist; notable survivors into the modern era include the Hôtel de Brunoy (demolished in 1930) and the Hôtel Alexandre, both in Paris. His work for François Racine de Monville has apparently also vanished but his probable influence on Monville's own architectural works as seen at the Désert de Retz speaks for itself. Togethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1860 In Architecture
The year 1860 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * August 22 – The Cenotaph to Matthew Henry, designed by Thomas Harrison, is unveiled in Chester, England. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * Spring – Willden Fort, Utah, built by Charles William Willden and his son Ellott (no longer standing). * June – Oxford University Museum of Natural History, designed by Benjamin Woodward. * August 28 – St. Augustin, Coburg (Bavaria), consecrated by the Archbishop of Bamberg Michael Deinlein. * November 22 – Solund Church, Norway, designed by Christian Henrik Grosch, consecrated by Bishop Jens Matthias Pram Kaurin. * November 28 – Swedish Theatre, Helsinki, Finland, designed by Georg Theodor von Chiewitz. Buildings completed * Mosque of Omar, Bethlehem, Palestinian territories. * Varshavsky railway station building in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Piotr Salmanovich. * Armour–Stiner House in Irvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas (architect)
William Thomas ( – 26 December 1860) was an Anglo-Canadian architect. His son William Tutin Thomas (1829–1892) was also an architect, working mostly in Montreal, Quebec. Life Thomas was born in Suffolk, England. He was apprenticed to a local builder after his family moved to Gloucestershire. His two older brothers became master glaziers and younger brother was the sculptor John Thomas, apprenticed under Sir Charles Barry and A.W. Pugin (born 1813). On completion of his apprenticeship, William moved to Birmingham to work for Richard Tutin, a builder and surveyor. He became a member of the Tutin family by marrying Martha, a member of the Tutin family. During this time he revised his title to architect, however, a depression in the city forced the closure of the firm and he moved to Leamington. Thomas began his own practice at Leamington Spa in 1831 where he designed many buildings, but in 1837 went bankrupt. In 1843, during a depression in the British building industry, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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