1844 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1844 in architecture
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Buildings and structures
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The year 1844 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
- June 12 – Abingdon Road railway station near Culham on the line to Oxford in England, designed by I. K. Brunel.
- August 21 – St Mary's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne (Roman Catholic, later Cathedral) in England, designed by Augustus Pugin.[1]
- August 27 – St Barnabas Church, Nottingham (Roman Catholic, later Cathedral) in England, designed by Augustus Pugin.[1]
- October – The Grange, Ramsgate (house), designed for himself by Augustus Pugin.[1]
- Autumn – The Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by George Meikle Kemp.
- New buildings for Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland, designed by Archibald Simpson.
- Bell tower of Dormition Cathedral, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
- Berkshire County Gaol, Reading, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott with William Bonython Moffatt.
- Berry Hill, near Halifax, Virginia.
Events
- July 27 – Vang Stave Church, relocated from Vang, Norway, to Brückenberg, Silesia, is reconsecrated.
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus win a competition for the restoration of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Prosper Desbuisson.
Births
- January 3 – Hermann Eggert, German architect (died 1920)
- June 23 – Émile Bénard, French architect and painter (died 1929)
- July 3 – Dankmar Adler, German-born American architect (died 1900)
Deaths
- March 6 – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh (born 1795; drowned).[2]
- April 15 – Charles Bulfinch, first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession[3] (born 1763)
References
- ^ a b c Hill, Rosemary (2008). God's Architect: Pugin and the building of romantic Britain. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-028099-9.
- ^ Bonnar, Thomas (1892). A Biographical Sketch of George Meikle Kemp. Edinburgh: Blackwood, pp.144–146
- ^ Baltzell, Edward Digby. Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia. Transaction Publishers (1996), p. 322–24. ISBN 1-56000-830-X.
