1806 in architecture

Overview of the events of 1806 in architecture

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The year 1806 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1806

### Buildings

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Old West Church (Boston, Massachusetts) The Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg, Russia

* January 30 – The original span of the Lower Trenton Bridge over the Delaware River in the United States is opened.
* August 15 – Construction work starts on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte from Jean Chalgrin. Also this year a competition for design of a Temple de la Gloire de la Grande Armée is won by Claude Étienne de Beaumont but Napoleon instead commissions Pierre-Alexandre Vignon to construct what will become La Madeleine, Paris.
* December 1 – The Olympic Theatre opens in Drury Lane, London.
* December 6 – The African Meeting House (Boston, Massachusetts), designed by Asher Benjamin, is dedicated.
* The Old West Church (Boston, Massachusetts), designed by Asher Benjamin, is built.
* The Circular Congregational Church in Charleston, South Carolina, designed by Robert Mills, is completed.
* The Basílica del Juramento de San Rafael in Córdoba, Andalusia, is completed.
* Iglesia de la Inmaculada in Heredia, Costa Rica, is completed at about this date.
* Latrobe Gate to Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is completed.
* Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts, probably incorporating designs by Joseph-Guillaume Legrand, is completed.
* Württembergisches Palais in Regensburg, Bavaria, is completed by Emanuel Herigoyen.
* Sándor Palace, Budapest, designed by Mihály Pollack, is completed.
* New Sloswicke's Hospital in Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, is built.
* New Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, England, designed by James Wyatt, is opened.
* The Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg is designed by Andreyan Zakharov; it will be completed in 1823 after his death.
* Rosneath House in Scotland, designed by Joseph Bonomi the Elder is finished.
* Demolition of al-Baqi.

## Awards

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* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Baptiste Desdeban.

## Births

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Claude Nicolas Ledoux

* April 9 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer (died 1859)
* October 14 – Niels Sigfred Nebelong, Danish historicist architect (died 1871)
* November 23 – Philipp Hoffmann, German architect and builder (died 1889)

## Deaths

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* June 17 – Henry Holland, English architect to the British aristocracy (born 1745)
* November 18 – Claude Nicolas Ledoux, French neoclassical architect (born 1736)

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