1848 in architecture

none March 2015 1848 architecture The year 1848 in architecture involved some significant events. Events Joseph-Louis Lambot develops ferrocement, the forerunner of reinforced concrete. Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill publishes History of Architecture from the Earliest Times, the first history of architecture to be published in the United States.Appleby Joyce Chang Eileen Goodwin Neva Encyclopedia of Women in American History https://books.google.com/books?id=DPwvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA66 2015 Routledge 978-1-317-47162-2 66 thumb|Mortimer railway station Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1848 Buildings thumb|right|Duncan House, Cooksville, Wisconsin (1848) April 8 – Newmarket railway station in Suffolk, England is opened.Gordon Biddle Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites Oxford University Press 2003 0-19-866247-5 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 – The Palm house at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London), designed by architect Decimus Burton and iron-founder Richard Turner, is completed and 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 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. Awards RIBA 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) William Henry Miller, American architect based in Ithaca, New York (died 1922) Deaths Thomas Duff, Irish ecclesiastical architect (born 1792) References Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture