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1839 architecture
The year 1839 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
May – Cambridge Camden Society is established in England by John Mason Neale, Alexander Hope and Benjamin Webb to promote Gothic architecture;http://www.ecclsoc.org/history.html History of the Society Ecclesiological Society 2011-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20110726013736/http://www.ecclsoc.org/history.html 2011-07-26 deadAnglicanlism: A Very Short Introduction Chapman Mark 22 June 2006 13 0-19-280693-9 Oxford University Press also this year the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society is founded as the Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1839
Buildings completed
thumb|Ponce Cathedral with original façade
thumb|Pulkovo Observatory
Ponce Cathedral, Puerto Rico
St Mary's Church, Derby, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Augustus Pugin
St Francis Xavier Church, Hereford, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Charles Day
Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester, England (Unitarian), designed by Charles Barry
Halifax County Courthouse (Virginia), designed by Dabney Cosby
Old Customshouse (Erie, Pennsylvania), designed by William Kelly
Lyceum (Alexandria, Virginia)
Åbo Svenska Teater, Åbo (Turku), Finland
Pulkovo Observatory, Russia
Söderarm, lighthouse, Sweden
Nine Elms railway station, London, designed by William Tite
Avon, Maidenhead and Moulsford Railway Bridges on the Great Western Railway of England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Queen's Tower (Sheffield), England, a house designed by Woodhead & HurstHarman, Ruth Minnis, John Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield
Wrest Park near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England, a house designed by Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, for himself
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Hector Lefuel.
Births
May 17 – Alexander Davidson, Scottish architect active in Australia (died 1908)
June 13
Robert William Edis, English architect and interior decorator (died 1927)
Ernest George, English architect and painter (died 1922)
October 8 – George Gilbert Scott Jr., English architect (died 1897)
October 29 – Imre Steindl, Hungarian architect (died 1902)
November 12 – Frank Furness, American architect (died 1912)
Deaths
January 24 – Michele Cachia, Maltese architect and military engineer (born 1760)
May 22 – William Atkinson, English Gothic Revival country house architect (born 1774/5)
August 31 – William Wilkins, English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist (born 1778)William Wilkins http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=408214 Dictionary of Scottish Architects 10 December 2022
November 15 – Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born 1743)
References
Architecture
Category:Architecture by year
Category:19th-century architecture