1876 in architecture

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The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

• February 2 - Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bury, England, designed by J. S. Crowther.
• August - The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper.^[1]

Buildings completed

Swan House

• Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan.^[2]
• Government House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Wardell.
• Kaahumanu Church, Hawai'i, built by Rev Edward Bailey.
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt.
• Swan House (Chelsea Embankment), London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
• Nádasdy Mansion, Nádasdladány, Hungary, designed by István Linzbauer and Alajos Hauszmann.
• The Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station in London, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is fully completed.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - John Louis Duc.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Blondel.

Births

• March 27 - A. E. Lefcourt, born Abraham Elias Lefkowitz, English-born New York real estate developer (died 1932)
• May 18 - Thorvald Astrup, Norwegian industrial architect (died 1940)
• June 26 - Vincent Harris, English architect (died 1971)
• October 24 - Paul Philippe Cret, French-American architect and industrial designer (died 1945)
• November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (died 1937)

Deaths

• May 7 - David Bryce, Scottish architect (b. 1803),^[3]
• August 21 - Ildefons Cerdà, Catalan Spanish urban planner (born 1815)
• date unknown - Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French architect (b. 1808)

References

1. "The Bayreuth Festival Theatre". The history of the Bayreuth Festival. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
2. (in Russian)
3. Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved December 27, 2010.