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Overview of the events of 1848 in architecture
The year 1848 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Mortimer railway station
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Duncan House,
Cooksville, Wisconsin (1848)
April 8 –
Newmarket railway station in Suffolk, England is opened.
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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
Births
Deaths
References