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The year 1792 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

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  • 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)
  • October 28 – Luigi Poletti, Italian neoclassical architect (died 1869)
  • 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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