title: 1827 in architecture
text: # 1827 in architecture
  
  The year 1827 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Work begins on the Athenaeum Club, London, designed by Decimus Burton.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings completed
  
  * Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe (Baden), designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner (died 1826).
  * Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, designed by Carl Theodor Ottmer.
  * Old Council House, Bristol (England), designed by Robert Smirke.
  * Union Club and Royal College of Physicians, Trafalgar Square, London, designed by Robert Smirke.
  * Fireproof Building, Charleston, South Carolina, designed by Robert Mills.
  * Mills Building, South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, designed by Robert Mills.
  * Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Virginia), designed by John Haviland.
  * Hospital Real de Inválidos Militares de Runa (Portugal).
  * Partis College, Bath (England) (almshouses).
  * Bank of Louisiana, New Orleans.
  * London Colosseum (panorama), designed by Decimus Burton for Thomas Hornor.
  * Tremont Theatre, Boston (Massachusetts), designed by Isaiah Rogers.
  * Hamburg Stadt-Theater.
  * Lapua Cathedral (Finland), designed by Carl Ludvig Engel.
  * Holy Trinity Church, Helsinki (Finland), designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, dedicated.
  * Christ Church Cathedral (Hartford, Connecticut), designed by Ithiel Town.
  * Church of St Mary, Haggerston (London), designed by John Nash, consecrated.
  * Yeshua Tova Synagogue, Bucharest (Romania).
  * Passage Choiseul (arcade), Paris, designed by Francois Mazois and completed by Antoine Tavernier.
  * Halkyn Castle (Wales) (residence), designed by John Buckler.
  * Hart-Cluett Mansion, Troy, New York, probably by Martin Euclid Thomson.
  * Beckford's Tower, near Bath (England) (folly), designed by Henry Goodridge for William Beckford.
  * Godmanchester Chinese Bridge (England), designed by James Gallier.
  * Ozimek Suspension Bridge (Poland), designed by Karl Schottelius.
  * New stone Shillingford Bridge (across River Thames in England).
  * Beam Aqueduct, Rolle Canal, north Devon (England), designed by James Green.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Labrouste.
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 17 – Samuel Hartt Pook, American naval architect based in Boston (died 1901)
  * February 9 – Luigi Fontana, Italian sculptor, painter and architect (died 1908)
  * March 14 – George Frederick Bodley, English architect (died 1907)
  * May 16 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect associated with Amsterdam (died 1921)
  * June 18 – William Hill, English architect associated with Leeds (died 1889)
  * August 3 – John Williams Tobey, American architect, carpenter and builder (died 1909)
  * September 19 – J. P. Seddon, English architect and designer (died 1906)
  * October 15 – Friedrich Adler, German architect and archaeologist (died 1908)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 11 – John Pinch the elder, English architect associated with Bath, Somerset (born 1769)
  * April 27 – John Foster, Sr., English architect, Senior Surveyor to the Corporation of Liverpool and dock engineer (born 1758)
  * November 1 – Louis-François Cassas, French landscape painter, sculptor, architect, archaeologist and antiquary (born 1756; stroke)
  