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Overview of the events of 1817 in architecture
The year 1817 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures [ edit ] Buildings [ edit ] Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery in London , designed by John Soane as the first purpose-built public art gallery in England, is completed and opened.[1] The first Waterloo Bridge in London, designed by John Rennie the Elder , is completed.
The Second Bank of the United States , in Philadelphia , designed by William Strickland , starts to operate.
In Nassau, Bahamas , the lighthouse on Hog Island is built, replacing that at Fort Pincastle (built in 1793 ).
Church of St. James the Great, Sedgley , in the Black Country of England , designed by Thomas Lee , is completed although not opened until 1823.Belsay Hall in Northumberland , England, designed for himself by Sir Charles Monck, 6th Baronet , probably with John Dobson , is completed.Lough Cutra Castle in Ireland, designed by John Nash , is completed.Publications [ edit ] Thomas Rickman – An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation , the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture .References [ edit ] 
