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1804 In Architecture
The year 1804 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * May 21 – Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, laid out by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, is opened. * August 28 – Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Quebec), designed by Major William Robe and Captain William Hall, is consecrated. * The Government House in the Bahamas is completed. * Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral in Uruguay is consecrated. * Dalongdong Baoan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, is completed. * The Pont des Arts in Paris, designed by Louis-Alexandre de Cessart and Jacques Dillon, is completed. * Rostokino Aqueduct for Moscow water supply is completed by Colonel Ivan Gerard to the designs of Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jules Lesueur. Births * February 7 – William Tinsley, Irish architect working in the United States (died 1885) * March 1 – John Henderson, Scottish ecclesiastical architect (died 1862) * March 13 – Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 In Architecture
The year 1885 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * May – The original wooden structures of Hobson Block, West Union, Iowa, USA, are destroyed by fire, leading to construction of the present building. * W. D. Caröe is appointed architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. * Construction of the Altare della Patria (''Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II'') in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi, begins; it will not be completed until 1925. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * July 13 – New building for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, designed by Pierre Cuypers. * November 30 – London Pavilion variety theatre, designed by Robert Worley and James Ebenezer Saunders. * December 27 – Church of St. Peter, Leipzig, designed by August Hartel and Constantin Lipsius. * Castle Hotel, Conwy, Wales. * Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Busovača, Bosnia-Herzegovina. * Vestermarie Church, Bornholm, Denmark. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Jean Desprez
Louis Jean Desprez (occasionally but incorrectly ''Jean Louis Desprez'') (May 1743–18 March 1804) was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life. Biography Desprez, who was born in Auxerre in Bourgogne, France. He studied architecture and was awarded the Great Prize of the Académie royale d'architecture in 1770. He traveled frequently to Italy and was associated with Piranesi in Rome. He came to the attention of King Gustav III of Sweden, who offered him a two-year contract as director of scenic decorations at the new Stockholm Opera founded by the King two years earlier. His first task there was the decorations for the new opera ''Gustaf Wasa'' (with a libretto authored by the King in collaboration with Johan Henric Kellgren and music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann). As an architect, Desprez designed in a monumental, neoclassical style influenced by his study of Greek and Roman ruins in the south of Italy and in Sici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 In Architecture
The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. 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. * Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria. Buildings completed * R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, considered to be "one of Richardson's greatest buildings" * Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan. * 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John S
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1855 In Architecture
The year 1855 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * October 15 – The second of the Prussia Columns is inaugurated, on the 60th birthday of their instigator, King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * The Palais de l'Industrie for the Exposition Universelle in Paris, France, mainly designed by the architect Jean-Marie-Victor Viel and the engineer Alexis Barrault. * in Paris, designed by Louis-Auguste Boileau, is completed. * Church of St John the Evangelist, Preston, Lancashire, England, designed by E. H. Shellard, is completed. * The Old Stone Church (Cleveland, Ohio) in the United States, designed by Charles Heard and Simeon Porter. * Church of Saint Bartholomew, Brugherio in Italy, rebuilt to the design of Giacomo Moraglia, is completed. * St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney, Ireland (Roman Catholic), to the design of Augustus Pugin following his death. * The Victoria Tower of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Townsend Andrews
George Townsend Andrews (19 December 1804 – 29 December 1855) was an English architect born in Exeter. He is noted for his buildings designed for George Hudson's railways, especially the York and North Midland Railway. Andrews' architect's practice in York did not confine itself to railway work, its other buildings including headquarters for two York-based banks and a number of churches. Life Andrews' roots lay in Jamaica and in London, but from the 1820s he was mainly in York. He was assistant to Peter Frederick Robinson. He won a Society of Arts premium in 1824. He was a council member of the Yorkshire Architectural Society, and Sheriff of York in 1846-47, during George Hudson's third term as mayor. In 1836 he was appointed a Fellow of the Institute of British Architects in London. He died in York on 29 December 1855. Railway work Andrews designed all the buildings, not only the stations, for the York and North Midland Railway (Y&NMR) from the middle of 1839 until th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1871 In Architecture
The year 1871 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * Abraham Hirsch is appointed chief architect of the French city of Lyon. * Martin & Chamberlain are appointed architects for the Birmingham board schools in England. * (end of year) – At the Vienna Hofburg, groundbreaking is held for the new Imperial Natural History Museum (), beginning a 20-year construction project. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * March 29 – The Royal Albert Hall in London, designed by Francis Fowke and H. Y. Darracott Scott. * September 14 – Hokkaidō Shrine, Sapporo, Japan. * September 27 – Rochdale Town Hall, England, designed by William Henry Crossland. * October 15 – Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester, England, designed by Joseph A. Hansom & Son. Buildings completed * Alexandria City Hall, Virginia, USA, designed by Adolph Cluss * Christ Church, Nazareth, Israel * Church of Saint-Augustin, Paris, designed by Victor Baltard * Fort Teremba, New Cale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Dick Gough
Alexander Dick Gough (3 November 1804 – 8 September 1871) was an English architect who practised in London, where much of his work may be found. He was a pupil of Benjamin Dean Wyatt, and worked in partnership with Robert Lewis Roumieu between 1837 and 1848. Life Gough was born on 3 November 1804 at Somers Town in London, the son of Alexander and Mary Gough. In 1823, at the age of 19, after some foreign travel, he became a pupil of the architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt, who entrusted him with the superintendence of several of his most important works, including Apsley House and the Duke of York's Column.. In 1836 he set up in practice in partnership with another of Wyatt's pupils, Robert Lewis Roumieu. Between 1837 and 1847, the two men exhibited 14 architectural drawings at the Royal Academy, mostly of buildings they were in the course of erecting. Their works included the Islington Literary and Scientific Institution (1837–8 ), in a stripped Classical style, new schools and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 In Architecture
The year 1887 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * Construction work begins on ** Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, Rosario, Argentina. ** Provinciaal Hof, Bruges, Flanders, designed by Louis Delacenserie and René Buyck. ** Ponce de León Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida, designed by Carrère and Hastings. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * March 29 – Peebles Old Parish Church, Scotland, designed by William Young (dedicated). * April 23 – Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași, Romania, completed by Alexandru Orăscu (dedicated). * June 20 – Victoria Terminus of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway in Bombay, designed by Frederick William Stevens. * December 1 – Raffles Hotel, Singapore. Buildings completed * Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral, designed by Pugin & Pugin. * New façade of Florence Cathedral, designed by Emilio De Fabris (died 1883). * Basilica of St. Nicholas, Amsterdam, designed by Adrianus Bleijs. * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ustick Walter
Thomas Ustick Walter (September 4, 1804 – October 30, 1887) was an American architect of German descent, the dean of American architecture between the 1820 death of Benjamin Latrobe and the emergence of H.H. Richardson in the 1870s. He was the fourth Architect of the Capitol and responsible for adding the north (Senate) and south (House) wings and the central dome that is predominantly the current appearance of the U.S. Capitol building. Walter was one of the founders and second president of the American Institute of Architects. In 1839, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. Early life Born in 1804 in Philadelphia, Walter was the son of mason and bricklayer Joseph S. Walter and his wife Deborah. Walter was a mason's apprentice to his father. He also studied architecture and technical drawing at the Franklin Institute. Walter received early training in a variety of fields including masonry, mathematics, physical science, and the fine arts. At 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1872 In Architecture
The year 1872 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * Work begins on the building of the Church of the Holy Angels, Hoar Cross, Staffordshire, England, designed by George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. Buildings and structures Buildings opened *July – The Albert Memorial in London, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is opened by Queen Victoria. *December 12 – Church of San Agustin, Laredo, Texas, is opened * The Ancoats Hospital, an enlargement of the existing building, in Manchester, England, designed by Lewis and Crawcroft, begins construction. Buildings completed * Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain (nearly two hundred years after it was begun). * St Mary Magdalene, Paddington, London, designed by George Edmund Street, originally completed. * St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina, designed by John Henry Devereux, dedicated. * The Egyptian Halls, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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