1839 in 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; also this year the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society is founded as the Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture.

Buildings completed

 * 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
 * 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)
 * November 15 – Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born 1743)