1800 in architecture
The year 1800 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- June 30 – Replacement Teatro Riccardi opera house in Bergamo, Lombardy, designed by Giovanni Francesco Lucchini, is opened.
- November 1 – The White House in Washington D.C., United States, is completed. However, the porticoes are not added until 1825.
- The King's Inns in Dublin, designed by James Gandon, are completed.
- Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral in Chile is completed.
- East Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight, designed by John Nash for his own use, is completed.
- Tyringham Hall near Newport Pagnell in England, designed by John Soane, is completed.
- Gosford House in East Lothian, Scotland, is completed to the 1790 design of Robert Adam.
Publications
Birch's Views of Philadelphia published.Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Simon Vallot and Jean-François-Julien Mesnager.
Births
- February 27 – Robert Willis, English mechanical engineer, phonetician and architectural historian
- August 17 – Isaiah Rogers, American architect
- September 30 – Decimus Burton, English architect
- December 4 –, French architect
Deaths
- May 21 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author and neoclassical architect