1851 in architecture

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 opened

 * February 5 – Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and Rectory, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, designed by Thomas Alexander Tefft.
 * May 1
 * The Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition, erected in Hyde Park, London to the design of Joseph Paxton.
 * Permanent Windsor Riverside railway station in England completed to the design of William Tite.
 * May 31 – Madonna dell'Archetto, Rome Italy.
 * July 25 – Holy Trinity Church, Bangalore, India.
 * October 1 – Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama.

Buildings completed

 * Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, designed by Prince Albert in consultation with builder Thomas Cubitt.
 * 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

 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Thomas Leverton Donaldson.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet.

Births

 * March 10 – Heinrich Wenck, Danish architect (died 1936)
 * March 26 – John Eisenmann, Cleveland-based US architect (died 1924)
 * June 29 – (Edmund) Peter Paul Pugin, English architect, son of Augustus Welby Pugin and half-brother of Edward Welby Pugin (died 1904)

Deaths

 * October 13 – Samuel Beazley, British theatre architect and writer (born 1786)
 * October 25 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (born 1779)
 * November 18 – Jacob Ephraim Polzin, German Neoclassical architect (born 1778)