1853 in architecture

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The year 1853 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• June 30 - Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as préfect of the Seine (department) to begin the re-planning of Paris.

Buildings

Fastnet Lighthouse

• Fastnet Rock Lighthouse is completed at the most southerly point of Ireland.
• The New York Crystal Palace is constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
• The New York Cotton Exchange building is completed in New York City.
• Rhode Island Tool Company building is completed in Providence, Rhode Island.
• Charlbury railway station in Oxfordshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened.^[1]

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Robert Smirke.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Arthur-Stanislas Diet.

Births

• February 26 - Antonio Rivas Mercado, Mexican architect, engineer and restorer (died 1927)^[2]
• August 28 (August 16 O.S.) - Vladimir Shukhov, Russian structural engineer (died 1939)
• September 11 - Stanford White, American architect (died 1906)^[3]

Deaths

• December 12 - William Nichols, English-born American Neoclassical architect (born 1780)^[4]

References

1. Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
2. Turner, Jane, ed. (1996). The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. ISBN 1-884446-00-0.
3. Baker, Paul R. (1989). Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0029017815.
4. Mellown, Robert O.; Peatross, C. Ford (1979). William Nichols, architect. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Art Gallery. pp. 1–6.