1829 in architecture
The year 1829 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- The General Post Office building in St Martins-le-Grand in the City of London, designed by Robert Smirke, is completed.
- Work begins on the Travellers' Club in London, designed by Charles Barry.
- Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico, designed by Manuel Tolsá, is completed.
- The new building of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland on Calton Hill, designed by Thomas Hamilton, is opened.
- Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by John Haviland, is opened.
- Central Congregational Church (Eastport, Maine) is built.
- St Peter's Church, Hammersmith, London, designed by Edward Lapidge, is consecrated.
- The Oratory, Liverpool, England, designed by John Foster, is built.
- Construction of the National Monument of Scotland in Edinburgh, designed by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair, is abandoned due to funds being exhausted, leaving only a row of Doric columns supporting the entablature.
- Cromer Hall in England, designed by William Donthorne, is built.
- Octagon House (Columbus, Georgia) is built.
- Sferisterio di Macerata in Italy, designed by Ireneo Aleandri, is completed.
- Construction of Cisternoni of Livorno in Italy, designed by Pasquale Poccianti, begins.
- Kvitsøy Lighthouse in Norway is built.
- Carrollton Viaduct on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, designed by James Lloyd, is completed.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux.
Births
- February 8 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect
- March 4 – Hermann Ende, German architect
- March 6 – Arthur Blomfield, English architect
- June 18 – Edmund George Lind, English-born American architect
- Charles Babcock, American architect
- George Corson, Scottish-born architect working in Leeds
- William Henry Lynn, Irish architect
- William Martin, English architect working in Birmingham
Deaths
- March 14 – Francis Johnston, Irish architect
- March 29 – Thomas Harrison, English architect and bridge engineer
- November 1 – George Allen Underwood, English architect working in Cheltenham