1849 in architecture

The year 1849 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

 * March 1 – Ashby railway station, Leicestershire, England, probably designed by Robert Chaplin, opened.
 * 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.

Events

 * March – The Journal of Design and Manufactures is established by Henry Cole.
 * May – The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin is published.

Awards

 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Luigi Canina.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Denis Lebouteux.

Births

 * January 9 – Gaetano Koch, Italian architect (died 1910)
 * February 22 – Carl Holzmann, Austrian architect (died 1914)
 * May 22 – Aston Webb, English architect (died 1930)
 * August 29 – John Sulman, English-born Australian architect (died 1934)
 * c. December – Henry Tanner, English public building architect (died 1935)

Deaths

 * April 18 – Carlo Rossi, Neapolitan-born architect working in Saint Petersburg (born 1775)
 * September – Daniel Robertson, American-born architect and garden designer working in Oxford and Ireland (born c. 1770)
 * Robert Cary Long, Jr., American architect working in Baltimore (born 1810)
 * John Pinch the younger, English architect working in Bath (born 1796)