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Overview of the events of 1849 in architecture
The year 1849 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures[edit]
Buildings[edit]
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.
- Rich-Twinn Octagon House, Akron, New York, built.
Carlo Rossi
References[edit]
- ^ Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
