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1810 In Architecture
The year 1810 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * February 10 – Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater, Ukraine, designed by Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, opened. * November 30 – St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, Canada inaugurated. Buildings completed * St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally, India (original building). * Basílica del Santísimo Sacramento, Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, designed by Tomás Toribio. * Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange, Russia, designed by Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, completed. * Commercial Rooms, Bristol, England, designed by Charles Busby. * City hall, Groningen, Netherlands, designed by Jacob Otten Husly in 1775, completed. * Northgate, Chester, England, designed by Thomas Harrison. * Old Market, Dominica. * Gignac Bridge, France, designed by Bertrand Garipuy in 1776, completed by Billoin and Fontenay. Events * Rebuilding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1776 In Architecture
The year 1776 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * The Landhaus (Dresden), designed by Friedrich August Krubsacius, is completed. * City Hall, Weesp in the Netherlands, designed by Jacob Otten Husly with Leendert Viervant the Younger, is completed. * Rauma Old Town Hall in Finland, designed by Christian Friedrich Schröder, is built. * Hôtel du Châtelet town house in Paris, designed by Mathurin Cherpitel, is built. * Château Malou near Brussels in the Austrian Netherlands is built. * Curtea Nouă palace in Bucharest, Principality of Wallachia, is completed. * New Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, England, designed by James Paine, is built to replace the ruined Wardour Castle. * Woolverstone Hall in Suffolk, England, designed by John Johnson, is built. * The Wenyuan Chamber, an imperial library in the Forbidden City of Beijing, is built. * The Palazzi di S. Apollinare in Rome is extended by Pietro Camporese il Vecchio and Pasq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 19
Events Pre-1600 * 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. * 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang. * 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy. * 1511 – The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope. * 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3. 1601–1900 * 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. * 1639 – Hämeenlinna ( sv, Tavastehus) was granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia. * 1764 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1865 In Architecture
The year 1865 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * George Gilbert Scott wins the competition to design the St Pancras railway station hotel and buildings in London. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Harris, Scotland, built for Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore, by David Bryce. In 2003 Amhuinnsuidhe Castle Estate purchases the castle (and its fishing rights). * Cefn Coed Viaduct, Wales, designed by Alexander Sutherland and Henry Conybeare. * Government House, Brisbane, Australia, designed by Benjamin Backhouse. * Bataclan theatre in Paris, designed by Charles Duval. * Iron-framed shipping warehouses at Saint-Ouen in Paris, designed by engineer Hippolyte Fontaine. * Crossness Pumping Station, serving the London sewage system, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver. * Stowford and Magnolia Cottages, Stowford, Cheshire, England, designed by William Ede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Notman
John Notman (22 July 18103 March 1865) was a Scottish-born American architect, who settled in Philadelphia. He is remembered for his churches, and for popularizing the Italianate style and the use of brownstone. Career Notman was born on 22 July 1810 at Fernieside on the south edge of Edinburgh in Scotland. He was the son of David Notman, a mason and builder. He was educated at the Watt Institution in Edinburgh. Around 1824 Notman joined his older cousin, William Notman to train as an architect in the office of William Henry Playfair in Edinburgh prior to emigrating to the United States in 1831. He eventually settled in Philadelphia, where one of his first commissions was Laurel Hill Cemetery in 1835. He later opened and operated a successful firm until his death in 1865. Notman was also a founding member of the American Institute of Architects and was committed to establishing professionalism in the practice of architecture in the United States. Notman is credited with int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880 In Architecture
The year 1880 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings * August 14 – Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, is completed after 632 years. * Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof (railway station) in Berlin, Germany, rebuilt by Franz Heinrich Schwechten, is completed. * Manchester Central railway station in Manchester, England is completed. * Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne is completed. * Yıldız Palace, Istanbul, Turkey, is built. * Bathing Ghat, Bulandshahr, India, is completed. Awards * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Loughborough Pearson. * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Louis Girault. Births * April 1 – Louis Laybourne Smith – Australian architect (died 1965) * April 9 – Jan Letzel, Czech architect (died 1925) * May 4 – Bruno Taut, German architect and urban planner (died 1938) * May 19 – Albert Richardson, English architect, writer, and professor of architecture (died 1964) * May 25 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Ferrey
Benjamin Ferrey FSA FRIBA (1 April 1810–22 August 1880) was an English architect who worked mostly in the Gothic Revival. Family Benjamin Ferrey was the youngest son of Benjamin Ferrey Snr (1779–1847), a draper who became Mayor of Christchurch, and his wife Ann Pillgrem (1773–1824).Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 169 He was educated at Wimborne Grammar School. Ferrey married twice. On 26 April 1836 at Islington, he married Ann Mary (Annie) Lucas (1812–1871). They had five children: Alicia (1838–1924), Ellen (1840–41), Eleanor Mary (1842–45), Benjamin Edmund (1845–1900) and Annie (1847–1926). Benjamin Edmund or Edmund Benjamin also became an architect, studying under his father and then assisting in his work. After the death of his first wife in 1871, he married a second time, in 1872 at Weymouth, Dorset to Emily Hopkinson (1829–1922). Ferrey died on 22 August 1880 at his London home. Ancestors Career After grammar school, Ferrey went to London to study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 1
Events Pre-1600 * 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held. * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. *1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4. *1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the ''Watergeuzen'' capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. 1601–1900 *1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker. * 1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin. * 1865 – Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 In Architecture
The year 1897 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * April 3 – Vienna Secession group founded by Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann among others. * David Ewart succeeds Thomas Fuller (architect), Thomas Fuller as Chief Dominion Architect of the Government of Canada. * James Knox Taylor becomes Office of the Supervising Architect, Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. Buildings and structures Buildings * May 1 ** Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum, designed by Wilhelm Dahlerup, opens in Copenhagen. ** Tennessee Centennial Exposition opens in Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, with a temporary pyramid for Memphis, TN and a copy of the Parthenon, which will be rebuilt of permanent materials in the 1920s. * May 12 – The new Oxford Town Hall, designed by Henry Hare, is officially opened in England. * May 16 – The Teatro Massimo is inaugurated in Palermo; it is the largest opera theatre in Italy and the third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mason (architect)
William Mason (24 February 1810 – 22 June 1897) was a New Zealand architect born in Ipswich, England, the son of an architect/builder George Mason and Susan, née Forty. Trained by his father he went to London where he seems to have worked for Thomas Telford (1757–1834). He studied under Peter Nicholson (architect), Peter Nicholson (1765–1844) before eventually working for Edward Blore (1787–1879). In 1831 he married Sarah Nichols, a Berkshire woman apparently fifteen years older than he was. A son was born in the first year of their marriage. In 1836 he returned to Ipswich to practise. Having worked at Lambeth Palace he had attracted the interest of the bishop of London, who now employed him independently designing churches and parsonages. These included three commissions for churches in Essex: St Lawrence, East Donyland; St Botolph, Colchester; and St James, Brightlingsea. The most remarkable of these is St Botolph's (1838) in white brick and Norman style. Apparently Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 24
Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda. * 1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia. * 1527 – Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague. * 1538 – Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia. * 1582 – With the papal bull ''Inter gravissimas'', Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar. * 1597 – The last battle of the Cudgel War was fought on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia. 1601–1900 * 1607 – ''L'Orfeo'' by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance. *1711 – ''Rinald ... [...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] |
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