1849 in architecture

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The year 1849 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Boston Custom House

• March 1 - Ashby railway station, Leicestershire, England, probably designed by Robert Chaplin, opened.^[1]
• May 1 - Stone railway station, Staffordshire, England, designed by H. A. Hunt, opened.
• September 2 - Gare de l'Est railway station in Paris (France), designed by François Duquesnay, opened.
• October 30 - London Coal Exchange opened.
• December 1 - Gothenburg City Hall (Sweden), designed by Pehr Johan Ekman, opened.
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, central London, designed by Joseph John Scoles, completed.
• All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, south London, designed by Lewis Vulliamy, interior completed.
• Boston Custom House (Massachusetts), designed by Ammi B. Young, completed.

Events

• The Seven Lamps of Architecture, by John Ruskin is published.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Luigi Canina.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Denis Lebouteux.

Births

• January 9 - Gaetano Koch, Italian architect (died 1910)
• February 22 - Carl Holzmann, Austrian architect (died 1914)
• May 22 - Aston Webb, English architect (died 1930)
• August 29 - John Sulman, English-born Australian architect (died 1934)

Deaths

• April 18 - Carlo Rossi, Neapolitan-born architect working in Saint Petersburg (born 1775)
• September - Daniel Robertson, American-born architect and garden designer working in Oxford and Ireland (born c. 1770)
• Robert Cary Long, Jr., American architect working in Baltimore (born 1810)
• John Pinch the younger, English architect working in Bath (born 1796)

References

1. Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.