1792 in architecture

Buildings , Tallinn • May 16 – La Fenice theatre in Venice, designed by Gianantonio Selva, is inaugurated with an opera performance. • August 22–31 – Columbus Obelisk in Baltimore, Maryland. • October 13 – Work begins on the White House, designed by James Hoban, in Washington, D.C. • Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia is built. • Church of St John-at-Hackney in London, designed by James Spiller, is built. • Stenbock House in Tallinn, designed by Johann Caspar Mohr, is completed. • The Old State House (Connecticut) in Hartford is probably designed by Charles Bulfinch (his first commission for a public building). • Manjarabad fort in India is built. • Sir John Soane begins work on his house in London, which becomes the Soane Museum. ==Awards==

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Pierre-Charles-Joseph Normand. ==Births==

• June 15 – Philip Hardwick, English architect (died 1870) • August 20 – Jakob Ignaz Hittorff, Franco-German architect who supervises changes at the Palais Beauharnais in Paris (died 1867) • October 28 – Luigi Poletti, Italian neoclassical architect (died 1869) • Thomas Deane, Irish architect (died 1871) ==Deaths==

• March 3 – Robert Adam, Scottish-born neoclassical architect and interior and furniture designer (born 1728) • October 28 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (born 1724) ==References==