Editing 1851 in architecture

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The year '''1851 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
* [[Missions Héliographiques]] established by [[Prosper Mérimée]] to photograph historical French architecture.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1851}}
===Buildings opened===
[[File:Crystal Palace from the northeast from Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1854.jpg|thumb|[[The Crystal Palace]]]]
* [[February 5]] – [[Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and Rectory]], Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, designed by [[Thomas Alexander Tefft]].<ref>{{cite book|title=History of the State of Rhode Island, with illustrations|publisher=Hong, Wade & Co|location=Philadelphia|year=1878|chapter=The History of Smithfield|pages=306–311}}</ref>
* [[May 1]]
** [[The Crystal Palace]], home of the [[Great Exhibition]], erected in [[Hyde Park, London]] to the design of [[Joseph Paxton]].
** Permanent [[Windsor & Eton Riverside railway station|Windsor Riverside railway station]] in England completed to the design of [[William Tite]].
* [[May 31]] – [[Madonna dell'Archetto]], Rome Italy.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CDOC-103sdoc27/pdf/GPO-CDOC-103sdoc27-10-2.pdf|chapter=The Italian Years|first=Pellegrino|last=Nazzaro|page=21|title=Constantino Brumidi: Artist of the Capitol|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=2000|place=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] – [[Holy Trinity Church, Bangalore]], India.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20110207201102070138103485f49208c/Churchill-prayed-here.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130117135252/http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20110207201102070138103485f49208c/Churchill-prayed-here.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-17 |title=Churchill prayed here |work=[[Bangalore Mirror]]. }}</ref>
* [[October 1]] – [[Alabama State Capitol]], [[Montgomery, Alabama]].

===Buildings completed===
[[File:Osborne House (geograph 5626738).jpg|thumb|[[Osborne House]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], England]]
* [[Osborne House]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], England, designed by [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] in consultation with builder [[Thomas Cubitt]].<ref>Struthers, Jane (2004). ''Royal Palaces of Britain''. London: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd. {{ISBN|1-84330-733-2}}.</ref>
* [[Dock Tower]] in [[Grimsby]], England.
* [[Donaldson's Hospital]] in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by [[William Henry Playfair]].
* [[De Wachter, Zuidlaren]], Netherlands.
* [[Wat San Chao Chet]], Bangkok, Thailand.
* Stone [[Bastei]] Bridge, Saxony.

==Buildings commenced==
* [[St. Stephen's Basilica]] in [[Budapest]], Hungary, designed by [[Miklós Ybl]].
* Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasa in [[Khiva]], [[Uzbekistan]].
* [[Hurstpierpoint College]] in England, designed by [[Richard Cromwell Carpenter]].

==Publications==
* [[Gottfried Semper]] – ''[[The Four Elements of Architecture]]'', part 1
* [[Edmund Sharpe]] – ''The Seven Periods of English Architecture''.

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Thomas Leverton Donaldson]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture – [[Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet]].

==Births==
* [[March 10]] – [[Heinrich Wenck]], Danish architect (died [[1936 in architecture|1936]])
* [[March 26]] – [[John Eisenmann]], Cleveland-based US architect (died [[1924 in architecture|1924]])
* [[June 29]] – (Edmund) [[Peter Paul Pugin]], English architect, son of [[Augustus Welby Pugin]] and half-brother of [[Edward Welby Pugin]] (died [[1904 in architecture|1904]])<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100209|title=Pugin|work=The Dictionary of Scottish Architects.|access-date=2014-06-29|archive-date=2017-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213002934/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100209|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* [[October 13]] – [[Samuel Beazley]], British theatre architect and writer (born [[1786 in architecture|1786]])<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Beazley, Samuel }}</ref>
* [[October 25]] – [[Giorgio Pullicino]], Maltese painter and architect (born [[1779 in architecture|1779]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Jacob Ephraim Polzin]], German Neoclassical architect (born [[1778 in architecture|1778]])

==References==
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