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Overview of the events of 1789 in architecture
The year 1789 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buxton Crescent
- The main block of the
Grand Pump Room, Bath, England, is begun by
Thomas Baldwin.
-
Cross Bath, in Bath, England, is rebuilt by
Thomas Baldwin at about this date.
-
Buxton Crescent in
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, designed by
John Carr, is completed
- New house at
Newliston near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by
Robert Adam.
- The
Moscow Gostiny Dvor is designed by
Giacomo Quarenghi, the favourite architect of
Catherine the Great.
- The rebuilt
Prince Vladimir Church, Saint Petersburg, is completed to the designs of
Ivan Starov.
-
All Saints' Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, designed by David Stevenson, is consecrated.
- The First Methodist Church in
Rhode Island is built, with a 160-foot spire.
- The octagonal
Old Stordal Church in
Norway, designed by the late priest Ebbe Carsten Tønder, is built.
-
Congress Hall,
Philadelphia, designed by Samuel Lewis, is completed as the county courthouse.
-
Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, is completed for the
American Philosophical Society.
- The
Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, designed by
George Dance the Younger, is opened.
- The
Piață Mică arcaded market hall[
where?] in
Transylvania is built.
-
Duras Castle in
Limburg (Belgium), designed by G. Henry, is completed.
- The
Alma Plantation Sugar Mill in
Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, is built.
- New peers' entrance to the
Irish Houses of Parliament in
Dublin, designed by
James Gandon, is completed.