1792 in architecture

The year 1792 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• May 16 – La Fenice theatre in Venice, designed by Gianantonio Selva, is inaugurated with an opera performance.
• August 22–31 – Columbus Obelisk in Baltimore, Maryland.
• October 13 – Work begins on the White House, designed by James Hoban, in Washington, D.C.
• Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia is built.
• Church of St John-at-Hackney in London, designed by James Spiller, is built.
• Stenbock House in Tallinn, designed by Johann Caspar Mohr, is completed.
• The Old State House (Connecticut) in Hartford is probably designed by Charles Bulfinch (his first commission for a public building).
• Manjarabad fort in India is built.
• Sir John Soane begins work on his house in London, which becomes the Soane Museum.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Pierre-Charles-Joseph Normand.

Births

• June 15 – Philip Hardwick, English architect (died 1870)
• August 20 – Jakob Ignaz Hittorff, Franco-German architect who supervises changes at the Palais Beauharnais in Paris (died 1867)
• Thomas Deane, Irish architect (died 1871)

Deaths

• March 3 – Robert Adam, Scottish-born neoclassical architect and interior and furniture designer (born 1728)
• October 28 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (born 1724)

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