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1797 In Architecture
The year 1797 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Ditherington Flax Mill, in Shrewsbury, England, is completed; by the end of the 20th century it will be the oldest iron-framed building in the world and is seen as the world's first skyscraper. * First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Samuel Blodgett, is completed (begun in 1795 in architecture, 1795). * Old City Hall (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is completed. * Hassan Basha Mosque in Oran is built. * St Mary's Church, Banbury in England, designed by S. P. Cockerell, is completed. * Palace of Shaki Khans in Shaki, Azerbaijan is built. Births * May 3 – George Webster (architect), George Webster, English architect (died 1864 in architecture, 1864) * October 8 – Ludwig Förster, German-born Austrian religious architect (died 1863 in architecture, 1863) Deaths * February 19 – Francesco Sabatini, Italian-born architect (born 1721 in architecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Webster (architect)
George Webster (3 May 1797 – 16 April 1864) was an English architect who practised in Kendal, which was at the time in Westmorland, and later in Cumbria. All of his works were executed near his practice, and were located in Cumbria, in north Lancashire, and in the adjacent parts of Yorkshire. Most of his work was carried out on domestic buildings, but he also designed churches, and public and commercial buildings. Early life George Webster came from a family of builders who later became architects, his father Francis (1767–1827) being described as a " mason, builder, and architect" whose speciality was the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments. It is not known how George received his architectural training, but he joined his father's business as a partner, and in 1818, he designed for the country house of Read Hall in Lancashire. Works Webster's works were geographically confined to the area around his office in Kendal, in what is now Cumbria, the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1797 Works
Events January–March * January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, is signed at Algiers (''see also'' 1796). * January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Republic adopts the Italian green-white-red tricolour as the official flag (this is considered the birth of the flag of Italy). * January 13 – Action of 13 January 1797, part of the War of the First Coalition: Two British Royal Navy frigates, HMS ''Indefatigable'' and HMS ''Amazon'', drive the French 74-gun ship of the line '' Droits de l'Homme'' aground on the coast of Brittany, with over 900 deaths. * January 14 – War of the First Coalition – Battle of Rivoli: French forces under General Napoleon Bonaparte defeat an Austrian army of 28,000 men, under ''Feldzeugmeister'' József Alvinczi, near Rivoli (modern-day Italy), ending Austria's fourth and final attempt to relieve the fortress city of Mantua. * January 26 – The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1726 In Architecture
The year 1726 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Work begins on the Dresden Frauenkirche, in Dresden, Germany, designed by George Bähr (completed in 1743 in architecture, 1743; destroyed in 1945 in architecture, 1945; reconstructed in 2005 in architecture, 2005). * Completion of St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London, designed by James Gibbs. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: François Carlier. Births *November 15 – Henry Keene (architect), Henry Keene, English architect (died 1776 in architecture, 1776) Deaths * March 26 – Sir John Vanbrugh (born 1664 in architecture, 1664) * September 16 – Jakob Prandtauer (born 1660 in architecture, 1660) References 1726 works, architecture Years in architecture 18th-century architecture {{Architecture-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Keck
Anthony Keck (1726–1797) was an 18th-century English architect with an extensive practice in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and South Wales. Life Keck was born at Randwick, Gloucestershire in 1726 He designed in the "austere Neoclassical style of the late eighteenth century – a provincial follower of Robert Adam." He died at Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, the village where he had his workshop and studio for most of his life, on 4 October 1797 at the age of seventy. He died at Beech House in the village, the home he partly designed for himself, and is buried in St. George's Church. Works Keck is credited with designing some fifty country houses in the South-West of England and South Wales. His works include: * Longworth Hall, Herefordshire * Barnsley Park, Cirencester, Gloucestershire * Burghill Court, Herefordshire * Flaxley Abbey, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire * Forthampton Court, Gloucestershire * Ham Court, Upton-upon-Severn, Gloucestershire, demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1721 In Architecture
The year 1721 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings *Bocking Windmill, Essex, England. *:File:7 Burlington Gardens (UxbridgeQueensberry House) c.1721.jpg, 7 Burlington Gardens, later Queensberry House, London, Giacomo Leoni's first design for England *Fort King George, along the Altamaha River in the modern-day US state of Georgia *Ruthven Barracks in Scotland completed *Jackson Square (New Orleans), New France *Nazarbaug Palace, Gujarat, India *Ellingen Residence in Ellingen, Bavaria completed in its Baroque form *Písek Gate, Prague, Czech Republic *Saint Paul the First Hermit Cathedral completed as parish church of San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Philippe Buache. Births *March 5 – John Adam (architect), John Adam, architect, brother of Robert Adam and James Adam (architect), James Adam (died 1792 in architecture, 1792) *March 26 - Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, French architect (Bours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Sabatini
Francesco Sabatini (1721 – 19 February 1797), also known as Francisco Sabatini, was an Italian architect of the 18th century who worked in Spain. Biography Born in Palermo, he studied architecture in Rome. His first contacts with the Spanish monarchy was when he participated in the construction of the Palace of Caserta for the King of Naples and Duke of Parma and Tuscany, Charles VII, the future King Charles III of Spain. When he was raised to the Spanish throne, he called Sabatini to Madrid in 1760, where he was positioned above the most outstanding Spanish architects of the time. He was appointed as Great Master of Royal Works, with the rank of lieutenant colonel at the Engineers Corps, simultaneously designated also as an honorary academician of the Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Sabatini's works are all encompassed within the neoclassical tradition, but he was not inspired fundamentally by ancient Greece and Rome, but by Italian Renaissance architect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 In Architecture
The year 1863 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * January 10 – The Metropolitan Railway, London, England, is opened, the world's first underground railway (engineer: John Fowler). * December 2 – The Statue of Freedom is set on top of the new dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. * ''date unknown'' ** The École des Beaux-Arts in Paris becomes independent of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. ** William Burges is declared winner of the competition to design the new Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork (Church of Ireland), his first major commission. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * March 2 – Clapham Junction railway station, London. * October 18 – Befreiungshalle memorial above Kelheim in Bavaria, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner and completed by Leo von Klenze, is inaugurated. * October 27 – Leeuwarden railway station in the Netherlands, designed by Charles van Brederode. * December 13 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Förster
Ludwig Christian Friedrich (von) Förster (8 October 1797 in Ansbach – 16 June 1863 in Bad Gleichenberg, Styria) was a German-born Austrian architect. While he was not Jewish, he is known for building Jewish synagogues and churches. Ludwig Förster studied in Munich and Vienna. He founded the ''Allgemeine Bauzeitung'' in 1836. From 1842 to 1845 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and influenced a generation of Viennese architects through his architectural studio. From 1839/40 he worked as a freelance architect, Otto Wagner, among others, was a member of his studio. 1846–52 Förster worked with his son-in-law Theophil Freiherr von Hansen. He contributed to the Ringstraße. Berlin-educated Ignaz Wechselmann became his friend and assistant. Förster superintended the construction of the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, which along with the Leopoldstädter Tempel and the Synagogue of Miskolc is his most important work. Forster and Hansen designed the structure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 In Architecture
The year 1864 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * Martin & Chamberlain begin their partnership in Birmingham, England. * December 8 – The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1831 and completed as a memorial to him by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, is opened to traffic. For the occasion, it is lit by magnesium flares but they are blown out by the wind. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * June 5 – Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille, France, designed by Henri-Jacques Espérandieu (consecrated). * June 23 – Grande synagogue de Lyon, France, designed by Abraham Hirsch. Buildings completed * St Peter's Church, Vauxhall, London, designed by John Loughborough Pearson. * Northampton Guildhall in England, designed by E. W. Godwin. * Oriel Chambers, Liverpool, England, the world's first metal-framed glass curtain walled building, designed by Peter Ellis. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaki, Azerbaijan
Shaki ( az, Şəki) is a city in northwestern Azerbaijan, surrounded by the district of the same name. It is located on the southern part of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, from Baku. As of 2020, it has a population of 68,400. The center of the city and the Palace of Shaki Khans were inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019 because of its unique architecture and its history as an important trading center along the Silk Road. Etymology According to the Azerbaijani historians, the name of the town goes back to the ethnonym of the Sakas, who reached the territory of modern-day Azerbaijan in the 7th century B.C. and populated it for several centuries. In the medieval sources, the name of the town is found in various forms such as Sheke, Sheki, Shaka, Shakki, Shakne, Shaken, Shakkan, Shekin. The city was known as ''Nukha'' ( az, Nuxa; russian: Нуха) until 1968. History Antiquity There are traces of large-scale settlements in Shaki dating back to more than 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditherington Flax Mill
Ditherington Flax Mill (promoted as the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings), a flax mill located in Ditherington, a suburb of Shrewsbury, England, is the first iron-framed building in the world, and described as "the grandfather of skyscrapers",'Father of the skyscraper' rescued for the nation press release, undated, retrieved 27 May 2007 despite its five-storey height. Its importance was officially recognised in the 1950s,W. G. Rimmer, 'Castle Foregate Flax Mill, Shrewsbury' ''Transactions of Shropshire Archaeological Society'' LVI (1957–60), 49ff. resulting in it becoming a Grade I |
