Overview of the events of 1812 in architecture
The year 1812 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- July 6 – The Laigh Milton Viaduct, built to carry the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in Scotland, is officially opened.[1][2]
- October 10 – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt, the fourth theatre on the site, hosts its first production.
- Original Scottish Law Courts, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid, completed.
- Custom House, Leith, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid, completed.
- HM Prison Perth, Scotland, designed by Robert Reid, completed.
- The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)
- The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London, designed by P. F. Robinson, is completed (demolished in 1905).
- St. John's Cathedral (Belize City) is completed, the first church to be built in the colony of British Honduras.
- The Flag Tower of Hanoi is completed.
- Temple of Diana, Valtice, Moravia, designed by Joseph Hardtmuth, is built.
- The Mahmoudiya Mosque in Jaffa, modern-day Israel, is completed.
- Castle Cottage, Newport-on-Tay, Scotland, is built.
Awards
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Deaths
References
- ^ Lewin, Henry Grote (1925). Early British Railways. A short history of their origin & development: 1801–1844. London: The Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd.
- ^ Awdry, Christopher, (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. London: Guild Publishing.