1808 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris, France.
• Fort Edgecomb, an octagonal, wooden, two-story blockhouse, built in Lincoln County, Maine, USA, to protect Wiscasset's seaport.
• Fountain in front of Mission Santa Barbara, California, USA.
• Hotel Polski, Warsaw, Poland.
• Potseluev Bridge across the Moyka River in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• Sheffield Old Town Hall, England, UK.
• Leeds Library, England, UK, by Thomas Johnson.
• Sparks Shot Tower in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Teatro della Concordia, designed by Luigi Canonica, in Cremona, Italy.
• Reconstruction of palace at Natolin, Poland, by Chrystian Piotr Aigner for Stanisław Kostka Potocki.

Events

• January 12 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver in south east England, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Achille-François-René Leclère.

Births

• January 22 – James Fergusson, Scottish writer on architecture
• July 25 – Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways
• February 13 – Robert Russell, Australian architect and surveyor
• October 28 – Emilio De Fabris, Florentine architect
• date unknown – Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French draughtsman and architect

Deaths

• February 18 – Giuseppe Piermarini, Italian architect
• March 9 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian-born architect and draughtsman
• October 1 – Carl Gotthard Langhans, Prussian builder and architect