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1816 in architecture

The year 1816 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events
• February – Carl Ludvig Engel is appointed architect for the reconstruction of Helsinki. • In Paris, the ''Académie royale d'architecture merges with the Académie de peinture et de sculpture'' (the French Academy) to become the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the French National School of Fine Arts. ==Buildings and structures==
Buildings and structures
Buildings in Moscow, Russia , Dublin • First Church of Christ, Lancaster, Massachusetts, designed by Charles Bulfinch, is built. • First Unitarian Church of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by John Holden Greene, is completed. • Karlsruhe Stadtkirche (Baden), designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner, is completed. • Greater Church of the Ascension in Moscow, attributed to Matvey Kazakov or Ivan Starov, is completed. • Stone Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, designed by Shangin, is completed about this date. • Circular church of San Francesco di Paola (Naples) is completed. • St Andrew's Church, Glasgow, Scotland (Roman Catholic), designed by James Gillespie Graham, is completed. • Walcot Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bath, England, designed by Rev. William Jenkins, is completed. • Wellington Rooms, Liverpool, England, designed by Edmund Aikin, are completed. • Fredericksburg Town Hall and Market Square in Virginia are completed. • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum in England, designed by Thomas Standen, is opened. • South Wing of Sydney Hospital in Australia is completed. • Berkshire County Courthouse, Lenox, Massachusetts, is completed. • Théâtre des Funambules in Paris is built. • Lord Hill's Column in Shrewsbury, England, designed by Edward Haycock, Sr. and Thomas Harrison, is completed. • Tenantry Column in Alnwick, England, designed by David Stephenson, is erected. • Vauxhall Bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge, crossing the River Thames in central London, designed by James Walker, is opened; it is replaced in 18951906. • Richmond Bridge, crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, designed by James Savage, is opened. • The Ha'penny Bridge (Wellington Bridge), crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, is erected. • Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill in Pennsylvania is erected by ironmakers Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, the first wire-cable suspension bridge in history. • Design of Bahu Begum ka Maqbara in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh by Darab Ali Khan. ==Awards==
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Lucien Van Cleemputte. ==Births==
Births
July 11Frans-Andries Durlet, Belgian architect and sculptor (died 1867) • August 9Patrick Keely, Irish-American architect based in Brooklyn (died 1896) • August 29Gridley James Fox Bryant, Boston architect and builder (died 1899) ==Deaths==
Deaths
April 3Thomas Machin, English-born canal builder and military engineer in the United States (born 1744) ==References==
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