1817 in architecture

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Overview of the events of 1817 in architecture

List of years in architecture

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The year 1817 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1817

### Buildings

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Dulwich Picture Gallery

* Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as the first purpose-built public art gallery in England, is completed and opened.[1]
* The first Waterloo Bridge in London, designed by John Rennie the Elder, is completed.
* The Second Bank of the United States, in Philadelphia, designed by William Strickland, starts to operate.
* In Nassau, Bahamas, the lighthouse on Hog Island is built, replacing that at Fort Pincastle (built in 1793).
* Church of St. James the Great, Sedgley, in the Black Country of England, designed by Thomas Lee, is completed although not opened until 1823.
* Belsay Hall in Northumberland, England, designed for himself by Sir Charles Monck, 6th Baronet, probably with John Dobson, is completed.
* Lough Cutra Castle in Ireland, designed by John Nash, is completed.

## Publications

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* Thomas Rickman – An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture.

## Awards

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* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Garnaud.

## Births

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* January 6 – James Joseph McCarthy, Irish architect (died 1882)
* April 9 – Alexander Thomson, Scottish Greek Revival architect (died 1875)
* April 15 – John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon, English Gothic Revival architect (died 1877)
* May 19 – George John Vulliamy, English architect (died 1886)
* June 2 – John Gibson, English architect (died 1892)
* July 5 – John Loughborough Pearson, British architect (died 1897)[2]
* Thomas Thomas, Welsh chapel architect and minister (died 1888)

## Deaths

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* July 19 – John Palmer, English architect working in Bath (born c.1738)
* September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
* November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, German-born architect and archaeologist (born 1774)

## References

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1. ^ Dunn, Daisy (2 December 2010). "The history of Dulwich Picture Gallery". Telegraph. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
2. ^ Goold, David. "John Loughborough Pearson – Dictionary of Scottish Architects". www.scottisharchitects.org.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

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