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Overview of the events of 1806 in architecture
The year 1806 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
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
Births
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Deaths
References