1848 in architecture

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The year 1848 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Duncan House, Cooksville, Wisconsin (1848)

• April 8 - Newmarket railway station in Suffolk, England is opened.^[1]
• May 1 - Stamford railway station in Lincolnshire, England, designed by Sancton Wood, is opened.
• June 19 - Monkwearmouth railway station in north-east England, designed by Thomas Moore, is opened.
• October 9 - Stoke-on-Trent railway station in north Staffordshire, England, designed by H. A. Hunt, is opened.
• October 12 - Gobowen railway station in Shropshire, England, designed by Thomas Mainwaring Penson, is opened.
• October 25 - Cochituate Aqueduct, feeding Boston, Massachusetts, is completed; its gatehouses contain the earliest surviving wrought-iron roof structures and cast-iron staircases in the United States.
• November 1 - Mortimer railway station in Berkshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened.
• November 20 - St. Michael's Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska) is completed.
• The Palm house at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London), designed by architect Decimus Burton and iron-founder Richard Turner, is completed and opened.
• The Thorvaldsen Museum of sculpture in Copenhagen, designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, is opened.
• The Sofiensaal in Vienna, converted into a ballroom by Eduard van der Nüll and August Sicard von Sicardsburg, is inaugurated.
• Construction of Cisternoni of Livorno in Italy, designed by Pasquale Poccianti, concludes with completion of Cisternino di città.

Events

• Joseph-Louis Lambot develops ferrocement, the forerunner of reinforced concrete.

Mortimer railway station

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Charles Robert Cockerell.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Charles Garnier.

Births

• William Frame, English architect working in Wales (died 1906)
• Luigi Manini, Italian architect and set designer working in Portugal (died 1936)

Deaths

• Thomas Duff, Irish ecclesiastical architect (born 1792)

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.