1804 in architecture
The year 1804 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- May 21 – Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, laid out by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, is opened.
- August 28 – Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Quebec), designed by Major William Robe and Captain William Hall, is consecrated.
- The Government House in the Bahamas is completed.
- Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral in Uruguay is consecrated.
- Dalongdong Baoan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, is completed.
- The Pont des Arts in Paris, designed by Louis-Alexandre de Cessart and Jacques Dillon, is completed.
- Rostokino Aqueduct for Moscow water supply is completed by Colonel Ivan Gerard to the designs of Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jules Lesueur.
Births
- February 7 – William Tinsley, Irish architect working in the United States
- March 1 – John Henderson, Scottish ecclesiastical architect
- March 13 – Thomas Allom, English architect
- September 4 – Thomas Ustick Walter, American architect
- November 3 – Alexander Dick Gough, English architect
- December 19 – George Townsend Andrews, English architect known for railway stations in Yorkshire
- John S. Norris, American architect
Deaths
- March 18 – Louis Jean Desprez, French painter and architect working in Sweden
- Nicholas Revett, English amateur architect