title: 1853 in architecture
text: # 1853 in architecture
  
  The year 1853 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * June 30 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as préfect of the Seine (department) to begin the re-planning of Paris.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * Fastnet Rock Lighthouse is completed at the most southerly point of Ireland.
  * The New York Crystal Palace is constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
  * The New York Cotton Exchange building is completed in New York City.
  * Rhode Island Tool Company building is completed in Providence, Rhode Island.
  * Charlbury railway station in Oxfordshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Smirke.
  * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Arthur-Stanislas Diet.
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 26 – Antonio Rivas Mercado, Mexican architect, engineer and restorer (died 1927)
  * June 21 – Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist (died 1930)
  * August 28 (August 16 O.S.) – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian structural engineer (died 1939)
  * September 11 – Stanford White, American architect (died 1906)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * December 12 – William Nichols, English-born American Neoclassical architect (born 1780)
  