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The year 1851 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

  • Missions Héliographiques established by Prosper Mérimée to photograph historical French architecture.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

thumb|[[The Crystal Palace]]

  • February 5 – Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and Rectory, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, designed by Thomas Alexander Tefft.
  • May 1
  • The Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition, erected in Hyde Park, London to the design of Joseph Paxton.
  • Permanent Windsor Riverside railway station in England completed to the design of William Tite.
  • May 31 – Madonna dell'Archetto, Rome Italy.
  • July 25 – Holy Trinity Church, Bangalore, India.
  • October 1 – Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama.

Buildings completed

thumb|[[Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England]]

  • Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, designed by Prince Albert in consultation with builder Thomas Cubitt.
  • Dock Tower in Grimsby, England.
  • Donaldson's Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair.
  • De Wachter, Zuidlaren, Netherlands.
  • Wat San Chao Chet, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Stone Bastei Bridge, Saxony.

Buildings commenced

  • St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, Hungary, designed by Miklós Ybl.
  • Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasa in Khiva, Uzbekistan.
  • Hurstpierpoint College in England, designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter.

Publications

  • Gottfried Semper – The Four Elements of Architecture, part 1
  • Edmund Sharpe – The Seven Periods of English Architecture.

Awards

  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Thomas Leverton Donaldson.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet.

Births

  • March 10 – Heinrich Wenck, Danish architect (died 1936)
  • March 26 – John Eisenmann, Cleveland-based US architect (died 1924)
  • June 29 – (Edmund) Peter Paul Pugin, English architect, son of Augustus Welby Pugin and half-brother of Edward Welby Pugin (died 1904)

Deaths

  • October 13 – Samuel Beazley, British theatre architect and writer (born 1786)
  • October 25 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (born 1779)
  • November 18 – Jacob Ephraim Polzin, German Neoclassical architect (born 1778)

References