1816 in architecture

Events

• February – Carl Ludvig Engel is appointed architect for the reconstruction of Helsinki.
• In Paris, the Académie royale d'architecture merges with the Académie de peinture et de sculpture to become the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the French National School of Fine Arts.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• First Church of Christ, Lancaster, Massachusetts, designed by Charles Bulfinch, is built.
• First Unitarian Church of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by John Holden Greene, is completed.
• Karlsruhe Stadtkirche, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner, is completed.
• Greater Church of the Ascension in Moscow, attributed to Matvey Kazakov or Ivan Starov, is completed.
• Stone Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, designed by Shangin, is completed about this date.
• Circular church of San Francesco di Paola (Naples) is completed.
• St Andrew's Church, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by James Gillespie Graham, is completed.
• Walcot Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bath, England, designed by Rev. William Jenkins, is completed.
• Wellington Rooms, Liverpool, England, designed by Edmund Aikin, are completed.
• Fredericksburg Town Hall and Market Square in Virginia are completed.
• Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum in England, designed by Thomas Standen, is opened.
• South Wing of Sydney Hospital in Australia is completed.
• Berkshire County Courthouse, Lenox, Massachusetts, is completed.
• Théâtre des Funambules in Paris is built.
• Lord Hill's Column in Shrewsbury, England, designed by Edward Haycock, Sr. and Thomas Harrison, is completed.
• Tenantry Column in Alnwick, England, designed by David Stephenson, is erected.
• Vauxhall Bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge, crossing the River Thames in central London, designed by James Walker, is opened; it is replaced in 1895–1906.
• Richmond Bridge, crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, designed by James Savage, is opened.
• The Ha'penny Bridge, crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, is erected.
• Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill in Pennsylvania is erected by ironmakers Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, the first wire-cable suspension bridge in history.
• Design of Bahu Begum ka Maqbara in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh by Darab Ali Khan.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Lucien Van Cleemputte.

Births

• July 11 – Frans-Andries Durlet, Belgian architect and sculptor
• August 9 – Patrick Keely, Irish-American architect based in Brooklyn
• August 29 – Gridley James Fox Bryant, Boston architect and builder

Deaths

• April 3 – Thomas Machin, English-born canal builder and military engineer in the United States