1850 in architecture
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The year 1850 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- November 1 â Foundation stone laid for church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, designed by William Butterfield. supervised by Beresford Hope for the Cambridge Camden Society as a model of the High Victorian Gothic ecclesiological style.
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
- Bratsberg Church, Trondheim, Norway.[1]
- Hillsgrove Covered Bridge, Pennsylvania, USA.[2]
- Britannia Bridge in North Wales, engineered by Robert Stephenson, is opened.
- Newcastle railway station in the north-east of England, designed by John Dobson, is opened.[3]
- Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris, designed by Henri Labrouste, is completed, the first major public building with an exposed cast-iron frame.[4]
- Château de Boursault, France, designed by Jean-Jacques Arveuf-Fransquin.
- Peckforton Castle, England, designed by Anthony Salvin.
- Vĩnh Trà ng Temple, Mỹ Tho, Vietnam.[5]
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture â Victor Louvet
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Charles Barry
Births
- January 10 â John Wellborn Root, Chicago-based US architect (died 1891)
- February 17 â Frank Darling, Canadian architect associated with Toronto (died 1923)
- November 15 â Victor Laloux, French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher (died 1937)
- December 21 â LluÃs Domènech i Montaner, Spanish-Catalan architect, a leader of Modernisme català , the Catalan Art Nouveau/Jugendstil movement (died 1927)
- Robert Worley, English architect (died 1930)
Deaths
- February 19 â François Debret, French architect (born 1777)
- March 2 â Auguste-Henri-Victor Grandjean de Montigny, French architect influential in Brazil (born 1776)
- May 8 â Antonio Niccolini, Italian architect, scenic designer, and engraver (born 1772)[6]
- July 12 â Robert Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1772)
- September 5 â John Holden Greene, American architect based in Providence, Rhode Island (born 1777)