1876 in architecture

The year 1876 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• February 2 – Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bury, England, designed by J. S. Crowther.
• August – The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, designed by Gottfried Semper.
• Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.

Buildings completed

• R. and F. Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, considered to be "one of Richardson's greatest buildings"
• Great Zlatoust Church, Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by Vasily Morgan.
• Government House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Wardell.
• Kaahumanu Church, Hawai'i, built by Rev Edward Bailey.
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt.
• Swan House (Chelsea Embankment), London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
• Nádasdy Mansion, Nádasdladány, Hungary, designed by István Linzbauer and Alajos Hauszmann.
• The Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station in London, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is fully completed.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Joseph-Louis Duc.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Blondel.

Births

• March 27 – A. E. Lefcourt, born Abraham Elias Lefkowitz, English-born New York real estate developer (died 1932)
• May 18 – Thorvald Astrup, Norwegian industrial architect (died 1940)
• June 26 – Vincent Harris, English architect (died 1971)
• October 24 – Paul Philippe Cret, French-American architect and industrial designer (died 1945)
• November 24 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (died 1937)

Deaths

• May 7 – David Bryce, Scottish architect (b. 1803),
• August 21 – Ildefons CerdÃÂ, Catalan Spanish urban planner (born 1815)
• date unknown – Jean-Baptiste Schacre, French architect (b. 1808)

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