1817 in architecture

Buildings • Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as the first purpose-built public art gallery in England, is completed and opened. • The first Waterloo Bridge in London, designed by John Rennie the Elder, is completed. • The Second Bank of the United States, in Philadelphia, designed by William Strickland, starts to operate. • In Nassau, Bahamas, the lighthouse on Hog Island is built, replacing that at Fort Pincastle (built in 1793). • Church of St. James the Great, Sedgley, in the Black Country of England, designed by Thomas Lee, is completed although not opened until 1823. • Belsay Hall in Northumberland, England, designed for himself by Sir Charles Monck, 6th Baronet, probably with John Dobson, is completed. • Lough Cutra Castle in Ireland, designed by John Nash, is completed. ==Publications==

• Thomas Rickman – An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture. ==Awards==

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Garnaud. ==Births==

• January 6 – James Joseph McCarthy, Irish architect (died 1882) • April 9 – Alexander Thomson, Scottish Greek Revival architect (died 1875) • April 15 – John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon, English Gothic Revival architect (died 1877) • May 19 – George John Vulliamy, English architect (died 1886) • June 2 – John Gibson, English architect (died 1892) • July 5 – John Loughborough Pearson, British architect (died 1897) • Thomas Thomas, Welsh chapel architect and minister (died 1888) ==Deaths==

• July 19 – John Palmer, English architect working in Bath (born c.1738) • September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748) • November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, German-born architect and archaeologist (born 1774) ==References==