1839 in architecture
The year 1839 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings and structures
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Events
- May – Cambridge Camden Society is established in England by John Mason Neale, Alexander Hope and Benjamin Webb to promote Gothic architecture;[1][2] also this year the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society is founded as the Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture.
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
Ponce Cathedral with original façade
- 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 & Hurst[3]
- 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 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)[4]
- November 15 – Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born 1743)
References
- "History of the Society". Ecclesiological Society. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
- Chapman, Mark (22 June 2006). Anglicanlism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-19-280693-9.
- Harman, Ruth; Minnis, John. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield.
- "William Wilkins". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
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