title: 1877 in architecture
text: # 1877 in architecture
  
  The year 1877 in architecture involved some significant events.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (shopping arcade) in Milan, designed by Giuseppe Mengoni, is completed.
  * Galleria dell'Industria Subalpina in Turin, designed by Pietro Carrera, is completed.
  * Manchester Town Hall in Manchester, England, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, is completed.
  * Trinity Church (Boston) in the United States, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, is consecrated.
  * New railway stations for the North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom) are completed at York, largely designed by Thomas Prosser, and Middlesbrough, designed by William Peachey.
  * Maria Pia Bridge in Porto, Portugal, built by Gustave Eiffel, is completed.
  * Rebuilt Ardverikie House in Scotland, designed by John Rhind, is completed.
  
  ## Events
  
  * March 22 – Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings established by William Morris and others meeting in Bloomsbury, London.
  * Richard Norman Shaw appointed architect to Bedford Park, London.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Barry (junior).
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 14 – Randall Wells, English Arts and Crafts architect (died 1942)
  * June 12 – Johann Friedrich Höger, German architect (died 1949)
  * December 6 – Paul Bonatz, German architect (died 1956)
  * Frank Baines, English Arts and Crafts architect (died 1933)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 23 – Thomas Talbot Bury, English architect and lithographer (died 1809)
  * May 8 – Edmund Sharpe, English architect and architectural historian (born 1809)
  * October 8 – John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1817)
  