title: 1807 in architecture
text: # 1807 in architecture
  
  The year 1807 in architecture involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * John Smith is appointed official city architect of Aberdeen in Scotland.
  * St Mark's Basilica in Venice is consecrated as a cathedral.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * The church of San Pietro di Cremeno, Genoa, Italy, is built.
  * The Templo de la Virgen del Carmen church in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, designed by Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras, is completed.
  * Saint Petersburg Manege (riding school), designed by Giacomo Quarenghi, is completed.
  * "Old Academy" building for Perth Academy, Scotland, designed by Robert Reid, is completed.
  * Chester City Club in England, designed by Thomas Harrison, is built as the Commercial Coffee Room.
  * Huguang Guild Hall in Beijing, is built.
  * Royal Crescent, Brighton, England (begun 1798) is completed.
  * In Lincoln County, Maine, the Nichols-Sortwell House and Castle Tucker, examples of federal architecture, are built at Wiscasset's seaport on the Sheepscot River.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Nicolas Huyot.
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 28 – Alan Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (died 1865)
  * September 26 – John Hayward, English architect (died 1891)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 22 – John Carr, English architect (born 1723)
  