title: 1826 in architecture
text: # 1826 in architecture
  
  The year 1826 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings opened
  
  * January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge over the Menai Strait in Wales, designed by Thomas Telford.
  * December 17 – Helsinki Old Church, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel.
  
  ### Buildings completed
  
  * Cathedral of Chihuahua, Mexico.
  * The Bank of England in London, designed by Sir John Soane.
  * Cumberland Terrace in London, designed by John Nash and John Thompson.
  * Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Potsdam, a very early example of Byzantine Revival architecture designed by Vasily Stasov.
  * Stadttempel, Vienna, Austria.
  * Sofienbad, Vienna, Austria.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Grand Prix de Rome – Léon Vaudoyer
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 11 – Thomas Worthington, English architect based in Manchester (died 1909)
  * July 18 – Edward Habershon, English architect (died 1900)
  * August 2 — Thomas Alexander Tefft, American architect based in Providence, Rhode Island (died 1859)
  * August 16 – Thomas Seaton Scott, Canadian architect (died 1895)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 1 – Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect and city planner (born 1766)
  * July 4 – Thomas Jefferson, American polymath and neoclassical architect (born 1743)
  