1876 in architecture explained

The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• February 2 – Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bury, England, designed by J. S. Crowther.
• August – The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper.^[1]
• Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.

Buildings completed

• R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, considered to be "one of Richardson's greatest buildings"^[2]
• Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan.^[3]
• Government House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Wardell.
• Kaahumanu Church, Hawai'i, built by Rev Edward Bailey.
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt.
• Swan House (Chelsea Embankment), London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
• Nádasdy Mansion, Nádasdladány, Hungary, designed by István Linzbauer and Alajos Hauszmann.
• The Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station in London, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is fully completed.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Joseph-Louis Duc.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Blondel.

Births

• March 27 – A. E. Lefcourt, born Abraham Elias Lefkowitz, English-born New York real estate developer (died 1932)
• May 18 – Thorvald Astrup, Norwegian industrial architect (died 1940)
• June 26 – Vincent Harris, English architect (died 1971)
• October 24 – Paul Philippe Cret, French-American architect and industrial designer (died 1945)
• November 24 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (died 1937)

Deaths

• May 7 – David Bryce, Scottish architect (b. 1803),^[4]
• August 21 – Ildefons Cerdà, Catalan Spanish urban planner (born 1815)
• date unknown – Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French architect (b. 1808)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Bayreuth Festival Theatre. The history of the Bayreuth Festival. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH. 2009-12-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20101021011654/http://bayreuther-festspiele.de/documents/_the_bayreuth_festival_theatre_341.html. 2010-10-21. dead.
2. Web site: Cheney Building (1876) . Historic Buildings of Connecticut . 3 June 2007 . 13 October 2020.
3. http://orthodox-newspaper.ru/numbers/at45849 (in Russian)
4. Book: Waterston . Charles D . Macmillan Shearer. A . Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index . December 27, 2010 . I . July 2006 . . Edinburgh . 978-0-902198-84-5 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061004113545/http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf . October 4, 2006.