1794 in architecture

The year 1794 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• date unknown – French confectioner Louis Jules Benois, forefather of the Benois family of artists, musicians, and architects, arrives in Russia following the French Revolution.
• Construction of houses on the edge of Blackheath, London, designed by Michael Searles, begins: The Paragon (a crescent), South Row and Montpelier Row; they will be completed in 1805.
• The interior of St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig in Saxony is remodeled by Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe in the neoclassical style.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Needle of Rijswijk, monument at Forest of Rijswijk, Netherlands.^[1]
• Fru Haugans Hotel, Mosjøen, Norway.
• The second
  Presidio of Monterey in Spanish Alta California. The chapel, now known as the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo
  , is the first stone building in the province.
• The
  New Orleans, Louisiana
  , USA.
• The Radcliffe Observatory building at Oxford, England.
• Mumbles Lighthouse, Swansea, Wales.^[2]

Births

• August 30 – John Rennie the Younger, English civil engineer (died 1874)
• October 26 – Konstantin Thon, Russian imperial architect during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I (died 1881)

Deaths

• February 23 – James Playfair, Scottish Neoclassical architect (born 1755; consumption)^[3]
• February 27 – Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French architect and structural engineer (born 1708)
• April 10 – Antonio Rinaldi, Italian architect working in Russia (born 1710)
• July 8 – Richard Mique, French Neoclassical architect (born 1728)^[4]
• October 20 – James Adam, Scottish architect and furniture designer, brother of Robert Adam (born 1732)^[5]

References

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