Editing 1792 in architecture

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The year '''1792 in architecture''' involved some significant events.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1792}}
===Buildings===
[[File:Stenbocki maja 30-04-2013.jpg|thumb|[[Stenbock House]], [[Tallinn]]]]
* May 16 – [[La Fenice]] theatre in [[Venice]], designed by Gianantonio Selva, is inaugurated with an opera performance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.operatoday.com/content/2004/11/la_fenice_reope.php |title=La Fenice Reopens on 12 November |last=Price |first=Gillian |date=November 12, 2004 |website=OperaToday.com |publisher=Opera Today |access-date=February 7, 2024}}</ref>
* August 22–31 – [[Columbus Obelisk]] in [[Baltimore]], Maryland.
* October 13 – Work begins on the [[White House]], designed by [[James Hoban]], in [[Washington, D.C.]]
* [[Alexander Palace]] in [[Tsarskoye Selo]], Russia is built.
* [[Church of St John-at-Hackney]] in London, designed by [[James Spiller]], is built.
* [[Stenbock House]] in [[Tallinn]], designed by Johann Caspar Mohr, is completed.
* The [[Old State House (Connecticut)]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]] is probably designed by [[Charles Bulfinch]] (his first commission for a public building).
* [[Manjarabad fort]] in India is built.
* [[Sir John Soane]] begins work on his house in London, which becomes the [[Soane Museum]].

==Awards==
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: Pierre-Charles-Joseph Normand.

==Births==
* June 15 – [[Philip Hardwick]], English architect (died [[1870 in architecture|1870]])
* August 20 – [[Jakob Ignaz Hittorff]], Franco-German architect who supervises changes at the Palais Beauharnais in Paris (died [[1867 in architecture|1867]])
* [[Thomas Deane]], Irish architect (died [[1871 in architecture|1871]])

==Deaths==
* March 3 – [[Robert Adam]], Scottish-born neoclassical architect and interior and furniture designer (born [[1728 in architecture|1728]])
* October 28 – [[John Smeaton]], English civil engineer (born [[1724 in architecture|1724]])

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