1851 in architecture

Overview of the events of 1851 in architecture

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The year 1851 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

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* Missions Héliographiques established by Prosper Mérimée to photograph historical French architecture.

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1851

### Buildings opened

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The Crystal Palace

* February 5 – Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and Rectory, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, designed by Thomas Alexander Tefft.[1]
* May 1
* The Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition, erected in Hyde Park, London to the design of Joseph Paxton.
* Permanent Windsor Riverside railway station in England completed to the design of William Tite.
* May 31 – Madonna dell'Archetto, Rome Italy.[2]
* July 25 – Holy Trinity Church, Bangalore, India.[3]
* October 1 – Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama.

### Buildings completed

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Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England

* Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, designed by Prince Albert in consultation with builder Thomas Cubitt.[4]
* Dock Tower in Grimsby, England.
* Donaldson's Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair.
* De Wachter, Zuidlaren, Netherlands.
* Wat San Chao Chet, Bangkok, Thailand.
* Stone Bastei Bridge, Saxony.

## Buildings commenced

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* St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, Hungary, designed by Miklós Ybl.
* Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasa in Khiva, Uzbekistan.
* Hurstpierpoint College in England, designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter.

## Publications

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* Gottfried Semper – The Four Elements of Architecture, part 1
* Edmund Sharpe – The Seven Periods of English Architecture.

## Awards

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* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Thomas Leverton Donaldson.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet.

## Births

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* March 10 – Heinrich Wenck, Danish architect (died 1936)
* March 26 – John Eisenmann, Cleveland-based US architect (died 1924)
* June 29 – (Edmund) Peter Paul Pugin, English architect, son of Augustus Welby Pugin and half-brother of Edward Welby Pugin (died 1904)[5]

## Deaths

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* October 13 – Samuel Beazley, British theatre architect and writer (born 1786)[6]
* October 25 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (born 1779)
* November 18 – Jacob Ephraim Polzin, German Neoclassical architect (born 1778)

## References

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1. ^ "The History of Smithfield". History of the State of Rhode Island, with illustrations. Philadelphia: Hong, Wade & Co. 1878. pp. 306–311.
2. ^ Nazzaro, Pellegrino (2000). "The Italian Years". Constantino Brumidi: Artist of the Capitol (PDF). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 21.
3. ^ "Churchill prayed here", Bangalore Mirror., archived from the original on 2013-01-17
4. ^ Struthers, Jane (2004). Royal Palaces of Britain. London: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd. ISBN 1-84330-733-2.
5. ^ "Pugin", The Dictionary of Scottish Architects., archived from the original on 2017-02-13, retrieved 2014-06-29
6. ^ "Beazley, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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