1802 in architecture

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The year 1802 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures[edit]

Buildings[edit]

• New Satu Mare Chain Church in Romania, designed by Preinlich Sigismund, is completed.
• New St. George's Church, Dublin, Ireland, designed by Francis Johnston, is completed.
• The Temple of Saint Philip Neri in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico is completed.
• The Four Courts in Dublin, designed by James Gandon, is completed.
• Rebuilding of Liverpool Town Hall in England under the direction of John Foster is completed.
• The Classen Library in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by the benefactor Peter Hersleb Classen, presumably assisted by Andreas Kirkerup,^[1] is completed.
• Wildersgade Barracks in Copenhagen, designed by the architects and developers Jørgen Henrich Rawert and Andreas Hallander, is opened.
• Mežotne Palace in Latvia, designed by Johann Georg Adam Berlitz, is completed.
• Badenich Palace in Bejsce, Poland, designed by Jakub Kubicki, is built.
• Sedgeley, a mansion on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is completed.
• Wrangel Palace in Stockholm, Sweden is rebuilt after a fire by Carl Christoffer Gjörwell.
• New dining room and conservatory for the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England, designed by Peter Frederick Robinson, are completed.
• Monument to the Magdeburg Rights (Kiev) in Ukraine, designed by Andrey Melensky, is erected.

Awards[edit]

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Hubert Rohault de Fleury.

Births[edit]

• January 22 – Richard Upjohn, English-born ecclesiastical architect working in the United States (died 1878)
• August 22 – Félix Marie Charles Texier, French architect and antiquary (died 1871)
• August 26 – George Wightwick, Welsh-born architect working in south west England and pioneer architectural journalist (died 1872)
• October 6 – James Bunstone Bunning, English architect (died 1863)

• Stamatios Kleanthis, Greek architect (died 1862)
• Andrei Stackenschneider, Russian architect (died 1865)
• Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, Silesian-born architect working in Germany (died 1861)

Deaths[edit]

• July 17 – Esprit-Joseph Brun [fr], French architect (born 1710)
• John Whitehead, English amateur architect working in Portugal (born 1726)

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