1837 in architecture

<h2 id="events">Events</h2>
<ul><li>January 11 – The <a href="/facts/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects/grdupR5D">Royal Institute of British Architects</a> in London (RIBA) is granted its <a href="/facts/Royal_charter/9R9nIJDR">royal charter</a>.</li>
<li>January 20 – Death of English <a href="/facts/Neo-classical_architect/tKdIuJwx">neo-classical architect</a> Sir <a href="/facts/John_Soane/7WJm0vKk">John Soane</a> gives effect to the creation of his <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a> house as <a href="/facts/Sir_John_Soane%27s_Museum/UfNukSHU">Sir John Soane's Museum</a>.</li></ul>
<h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2>
<p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1837</p>
<h3>Buildings</h3>

<ul><li>June 10 – <a href="/facts/Galerie_des_Batailles/sdVHlRe5">Galerie des Batailles</a> at the <a href="/facts/Palace_of_Versailles/UEBCWwQU">Palace of Versailles</a> in France, designed by <a href="/facts/Pierre-Fran%C3%A7ois-L%C3%A9onard_Fontaine/mPvgL0La">Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine</a> with Frédéric Nepveu, is opened.</li>
<li>July 13 – <a href="/facts/St_George%27s_Cathedral,_London/uj4ECnKD">Christ Church, St Pancras, London</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/James_Pennethorne/jEjhFtEU">James Pennethorne</a>, is consecrated.</li>
<li>July 20 – <a href="/facts/Euston_railway_station/Ev5XSVXt">Euston railway station</a>, the first main line station in London, is opened, incorporating the <a href="/facts/Euston_Arch/vIaVMCT8">Euston Arch</a> designed by <a href="/facts/Philip_Hardwick/Km11uocl">Philip Hardwick</a> (demolished 1961).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li>
<li>"Great Stove" or <a href="/facts/Conservatory_(greenhouse)/GUuIkqA1">Conservatory</a> at <a href="/facts/Chatsworth_House/UEA7Vvqd">Chatsworth House</a> in England, designed by <a href="/facts/Joseph_Paxton/a73mHUP9">Joseph Paxton</a>, is begun; it is the largest glass building in the world at this time (demolished 1923).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
<li>Major reconstruction of <a href="/facts/Penrhyn_Castle/EnRCAS6H">Penrhyn Castle</a> in <a href="/facts/North_Wales/71KFFTgs">North Wales</a> by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Hopper_(architect)/yfSbNeI0">Thomas Hopper</a> is largely completed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li>
<li>Rock Park, <a href="/facts/Rock_Ferry/Fr2VQyJB">Rock Ferry</a>, England, laid out by Jonathan Bennison.</li></ul>
<h2 id="awards">Awards</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Grand_Prix_de_Rome/edb3ht9K">Grand Prix de Rome</a>, architecture: Jean-Baptiste Guenepin.</li></ul>
<h2 id="births">Births</h2>

<ul><li>28 May – <a href="/facts/George_Ashlin/TLKB36Id">George Ashlin</a>, Irish architect (died <a href="/facts/1921_in_architecture/wI6Fs7BA">1921</a>)</li>
<li>4 June – <a href="/facts/Jean-Louis_Pascal/EKMcHJTk">Jean-Louis Pascal</a>, French architect (died <a href="/facts/1920_in_architecture/vtQGr00E">1920</a>)</li>
<li>11 December – <a href="/facts/Webster_Paulson/vhsrtWe7">Webster Paulson</a>, English civil engineer (died <a href="/facts/1887_in_architecture/3DAyPycV">1887</a>)</li>
<li>15 December – <a href="/facts/George_B._Post/M3zFosA3">George B. Post</a>, American architect (died <a href="/facts/1913_in_architecture/JBvm0TSn">1913</a>)</li></ul>
<h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2>
<ul><li>January 20 – Sir <a href="/facts/John_Soane/7WJm0vKk">John Soane</a>, English architect (born <a href="/facts/1753_in_architecture/wchTlExI">1753</a>)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Smithson, Alison; Smithson, Peter (1968). The Euston Arch and the growth of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. London: Thames & Hudson. <a href="/wiki/Alison_and_Peter_Smithson" target="_blank">/wiki/Alison_and_Peter_Smithson</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Hitchcock, Henry-Russell (1977). Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 177. ISBN 0-14-056115-3. <a href="0-14-056115-3" target="_blank">0-14-056115-3</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Port, M. H. (2004). "Hopper, Thomas (1776–1856)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13763. Retrieved 2013-01-23. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
 <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13763" target="_blank">http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13763</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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