Editing 1844 in architecture

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The year '''1844 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1844}}
===Buildings completed===
[[File:Edinburgh Scott Monument.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Scott Monument]]]]
* [[June 12]] – [[Culham railway station|Abingdon Road railway station]] near [[Culham]] on the line to Oxford in England, designed by [[I. K. Brunel]].
* [[August 21]] – [[St Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne|St Mary's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne]] (Roman Catholic, later Cathedral) in England, designed by [[Augustus Pugin]].<ref name=GA>{{cite book|first=Rosemary|last=Hill|title=God's Architect: Pugin and the building of romantic Britain|publisher=Penguin Books|location=London|year=2008|isbn=978-0-14-028099-9}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] – [[Nottingham Cathedral|St Barnabas Church, Nottingham]] (Roman Catholic, later Cathedral) in England, designed by Augustus Pugin.<ref name=GA />
* October – [[The Grange, Ramsgate]] (house), designed for himself by Augustus Pugin.<ref name=GA />
* 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]].
* [[HM Prison Reading|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, Innlandet|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==
[[File:George Meikle Kemp by William Bonnar.jpg|thumb|upright|[[George Meikle Kemp]]]]
* [[January 3]] – [[Hermann Eggert]], German architect (died [[1920 in architecture|1920]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Émile Bénard]], French architect and painter (died [[1929 in architecture|1929]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Dankmar Adler]], German-born American architect (died [[1900 in architecture|1900]])

==Deaths==
* [[March 6]] – [[George Meikle Kemp]], designer of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh (born [[1705 in architecture|1795]]; drowned).<ref>Bonnar, Thomas (1892). ''A Biographical Sketch of George Meikle Kemp.'' Edinburgh: Blackwood, pp.144–146</ref>
* [[April 15]] – [[Charles Bulfinch]], first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession<ref name=baltzell>Baltzell, Edward Digby. ''Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia''. Transaction Publishers (1996), p. 322–24. {{ISBN|1-56000-830-X}}.</ref> (born [[1763 in architecture|1763]])

==References==
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