1827 in architecture
The year 1827 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- Work begins on the Athenaeum Club, London, designed by Decimus Burton.
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
- Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
- Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, designed by Carl Theodor Ottmer.
- Old Council House, Bristol, designed by Robert Smirke.
- Union Club and Royal College of Physicians, Trafalgar Square, London, designed by Robert Smirke.
- Fireproof Building, Charleston, South Carolina, designed by Robert Mills.
- Mills Building, South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, designed by Robert Mills.
- Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, designed by John Haviland.
- Hospital Real de Inválidos Militares de Runa.
- Partis College, Bath .
- Bank of Louisiana, New Orleans.
- London Colosseum, designed by Decimus Burton for Thomas Hornor.
- Tremont Theatre, Boston, designed by Isaiah Rogers.
- Hamburg Stadt-Theater.
- Lapua Cathedral, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel.
- Holy Trinity [Church, Helsinki], designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, dedicated.
- Christ Church Cathedral (Hartford, Connecticut), designed by Ithiel Town.
- Church of St Mary, Haggerston, designed by John Nash, consecrated.
- Yeshua Tova Synagogue, Bucharest.
- Passage Choiseul, Paris, designed by Francois Mazois and completed by Antoine Tavernier.
- Halkyn Castle, designed by John Buckler.
- Hart-Cluett Mansion, Troy, New York, probably by Martin Euclid Thomson.
- Beckford's Tower, near Bath, designed by Henry Goodridge for William Beckford.
- Godmanchester Chinese Bridge, designed by James Gallier.
- Ozimek Suspension Bridge, designed by Karl Schottelius.
- New stone Shillingford Bridge.
- Beam Aqueduct, Rolle Canal, north Devon, designed by James Green.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Labrouste.
Births
- January 17 – Samuel Hartt Pook, American naval architect based in Boston
- February 9 – Luigi Fontana, Italian sculptor, painter and architect
- March 14 – George Frederick Bodley, English architect
- May 16 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect associated with Amsterdam
- June 18 – William Hill, English architect associated with Leeds
- August 3 – John Williams Tobey, American architect, carpenter and builder
- September 19 – J. P. Seddon, English architect and designer
- October 15 – Friedrich Adler, German architect and archaeologist
Deaths
- March 11 – John Pinch the elder, English architect associated with Bath, Somerset
- April 27 – John Foster, Sr., English architect, Senior Surveyor to the Corporation of Liverpool and dock engineer
- November 1 – Louis-François Cassas, French landscape painter, sculptor, architect, archaeologist and antiquary