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 .