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The year 1867 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

  • May 12 – Construction work begins on Toluca Cathedral in Mexico.
  • May 20 – Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone for the Royal Albert Hall in London, designed by Captain Francis Fowke and Colonel H. Y. Darracott Scott.
  • Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete.
  • Ildefons Cerdà publishes Teoría General de la Urbanización ("General Theory of Urbanization").
  • The United States Congress directs the United States Army Corps of Engineers to begin improvements on the Navigation Structures at Frankfort Harbor, Michigan.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • January 1 – The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, United States
  • May 11 – St Nedelya Church, Sofia, Bulgaria (rebuilt)
  • July 30 – Kvæfjord Church, Norway, designed by Jacob Wilhelm Nordan
  • July 31 – St Giles Church, Willenhall, England (consecrated)
  • September 27 – Zagreb Synagogue (consecrated)

thumb|[[Grande halle de la Villette]]

Buildings completed

  • Russian-American Building No. 29, Sitka, Alaska
  • Grande halle de la Villette (abattoir), Paris, France, designed by Jules de Mérindol and Louis-Adolphe Janvier

Awards

  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Texier.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Émile Bénard.

Births

  • February 2 - Theodate Pope Riddle, American architect (died 1946)
  • March 10 – Hector Guimard, French Art Nouveau architect (died 1942)
  • April 27 – Charles Nicholson, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1949)
  • June 8 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, interior designer, writer and educator (died 1959)
  • June 22 – John A. Pearson, English-born Canadian architect (died 1940)
  • August 15 - Henry Hornbostel, American architect and academic (died 1967)
  • October 11 – Francis Rattenbury, English-born Canadian architect (murdered 1935)
  • October 17 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan Spanish Modernista architect (died 1956)
  • November 24 – Detmar Blow, English Arts and Crafts architect (died 1939)

Deaths

thumb|upright|[[Jakob Ignaz Hittorff]]

  • March 6 – József Hild, Hungarian architect (born 1789)
  • March 25 – Jakob Ignaz Hittorff, Franco-German architect, who supervised changes at Palais Beauharnais in Paris (born 1792)
  • April 18 – Robert Smirke, English Greek Revival architect (born 1780)

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