1850 in architecture

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The year 1850 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events[]

November 1 – 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.

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 Tràng Temple, Mỹ Tho, Vietnam.^[5]

January 10 – John Wellborn Root, Chicago-based US architect (died 1891)
February 17 – Frank Darling, Canadian architect associated with Toronto (died 1923)
November 15 – Victor Laloux, French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher (died 1937)
December 21 – Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Spanish-Catalan architect, a leader of , the Catalan Art Nouveau/Jugendstil movement (died 1927)
Robert Worley, English architect (died 1930)

February 19 – François Debret, French architect (born 1777)
March 2 – Auguste-Henri-Victor Grandjean de Montigny, French architect influential in Brazil (born 1776)
May 8 – Antonio Niccolini, Italian architect, scenic designer, and engraver (born 1772)^[6]
July 12 – Robert Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1772)
September 5 — John Holden Greene, American architect based in Providence, Rhode Island (born 1777)

^ "Bratsberg kirke" (in Norwegian). Strinda historielag. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
^ "Pennsylvania Cultural Resources Geographic Information System" (Searchable database). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
^ Biddle, Gordon; Nock, Oswald (1983). The Railway Heritage of Britain. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2355-7.
^ Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle (1986). Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism – the Western tradition. London: Academy Editions. p. 478. ISBN 0-85670-899-2.
^ Võ Văn Tường. "Các chùa Nam Bộ" (in Vietnamese). . Retrieved 2008-05-30.
^ Cassanelli, Roberto; Ciapparelli, Pier Luigi; Colle, Enrico; David, Massimiliano (2001). Houses and Monuments of Pompeii: The Work of Fausto and Felice Niccolini. p. 23. ISBN 9780892366842.