Editing 1848 in architecture

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The year '''1848 in architecture''' involved some significant events.

==Events==
* [[Joseph-Louis Lambot]] develops [[ferrocement]], the forerunner of [[reinforced concrete]].
* [[Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill]] publishes ''History of Architecture from the Earliest Times'', the first history of architecture to be published in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Appleby|first1=Joyce|last2=Chang|first2=Eileen|last3=Goodwin|first3=Neva|title=Encyclopedia of Women in American History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPwvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA66|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-47162-2|page=66}}</ref>
[[File:Mortimer railway station - geograph - 1012409.jpg|thumb|[[Mortimer railway station]]]]

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1848}}
===Buildings===
[[File:Duncan600.jpg|thumb|right|Duncan House, [[Cooksville, Wisconsin]] (1848)]]
* April 8 – [[Newmarket (High Level) railway station|Newmarket railway station]] in Suffolk, England is opened.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gordon|last=Biddle|title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-19-866247-5}}</ref>
* May 1 – [[Stamford railway station]] in Lincolnshire, England, designed by [[Sancton Wood]], is opened.
* June 19 – [[Monkwearmouth Station Museum|Monkwearmouth railway station]] in north-east England, designed by Thomas Moore, is opened.
* October – The [[Palm house]] at the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] ([[London]]), designed by architect [[Decimus Burton]] and iron-founder [[Richard Turner (iron-founder)|Richard Turner]], is completed and opened.
* October 9 – [[Stoke-on-Trent railway station]] in north Staffordshire, England, designed by H. A. Hunt, is opened.
* October 12 – [[Gobowen railway station]] in Shropshire, England, designed by [[Thomas Mainwaring Penson]], is opened.
* October 25 – [[Cochituate Aqueduct]], feeding [[Boston]], Massachusetts, is completed; its gatehouses contain the earliest surviving wrought-iron roof structures and cast-iron staircases in the United States.
* November 1 – [[Mortimer railway station]] in Berkshire, England, designed by [[I. K. Brunel]], is opened.
* November 20 – [[St. Michael's Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)]] is completed.
* The [[Thorvaldsen Museum]] of sculpture in [[Copenhagen]], designed by [[Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll]], is opened.
* The [[Sofiensaal]] in [[Vienna]], converted into a ballroom by [[Eduard van der Nüll]] and [[August Sicard von Sicardsburg]], is inaugurated.
* Construction of [[Cisternoni of Livorno]] in Italy, designed by Pasquale Poccianti, concludes with completion of [[:File:Cisternino città.jpg|Cisternino di città]].

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Charles Robert Cockerell]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: [[Charles Garnier (architect)|Charles Garnier]].

==Births==
* [[William Frame]], English architect working in Wales (died [[1906 in architecture|1906]])
* [[Luigi Manini]], Italian architect and set designer working in Portugal (died [[1936 in architecture|1936]])
* [[William Henry Miller (architect)|William Henry Miller]], American architect based in [[Ithaca, New York]] (died [[1922 in architecture|1922]])

==Deaths==
* [[Thomas Duff]], Irish ecclesiastical architect (born [[1792 in architecture|1792]])

==References==
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