1785_in_architecture
1785 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1785 in architecture
The year 1785 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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- May 20 – The United States Land Ordinance of 1785 determines the layout of townships in the western territories.
- July 17 – A groundbreaking ceremony is held for the Pella Palace in Russia, designed by Ivan Starov; it will never be completed.[1]
Buildings completed
- May 19 – Plaza de Toros de Ronda, Spain.
- September 7 – Notre-Dame de Guebwiller inaugurated.
- Attingham Park, Shropshire, England, designed by George Steuart.
- Chertsey Bridge over the River Thames in England, designed by James Paine and Kenton Couse.
- Marble Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Antonio Rinaldi.
- Church of St. Stephen Harding in Apátistvánfalva.
- Odigitrievsky Cathedral in Ulan Ude, Russia.[2]
- Palace of Iturbide in Mexico City, designed by Francisco Antonio de Guerrero y Torres.
- Grand Palace, Bangkok, completed.
- Rebuilding of Babolovo Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, by Ilya Neyelov.
- Modifications to Neue Kirche, Berlin, by Georg Christian Unger after a design by Carl von Gontard.
- Mussenden Temple on the north coast of Ireland.
- October 29 – Achille Leclère, French architect (died 1853)
- William Cubitt, English civil engineer (died 1861)
- August 11 – Marie-Joseph Peyre, French architect (born 1730)
- September 26 – Ventura Rodríguez, Spanish architect and artist (born 1717)
- Voronov, Victor (2008). Ivan Starov (Иван Старов) (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Iskusstvo-SPB. ISBN 9785210015112. p. 245
- "Buryatia governmental page with history of Cathedral". egov-buryatia.ru. Archived from the original on 2007-10-22.