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1846 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1846 in architecture
The year 1846 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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- December 23 – The Nizamat Imambara, in Murshidabad, India built by Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah, having been partially burnt down in 1842, is completely destroyed in another fire.[1]
Buildings opened
- January 16 – Shree Govindajee Temple in Imphal, Manipur, commissioned by Raja Nara Singh.
- March 7 – Grace Church (Manhattan), New York City, United States, designed by James Renwick Jr., is consecrated.
- May 12 – Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral (Brooklyn) holds its first service.[2]
- May 21 – Trinity Church (Manhattan) in Wall Street, New York City, designed by Richard Upjohn, is consecrated.[3]
- July 30 – Albert Dock in Liverpool, England, officially opened by Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.[4]
- August 4 – Dublin Kingsbridge railway station in Ireland, designed by Sancton Wood.
- August 31 – St Giles' Catholic Church, Cheadle in England, designed by Augustus Pugin, is consecrated.
- September 1 – Pasig River Light, the first lighthouse erected in the Philippines, is lit.[5]
- September 22 – Lancaster Castle railway station in England, designed by William Tite.
- December 24 – Needham, Stowmarket and Thurston railway stations in Suffolk, England, designed by Frederick Barnes (station buildings completed 1847/9).[6]
Buildings completed
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- June — Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island, designed by Richard Upjohn, is completed (except for the spire, which was not finished until 1860).[7]
- Macau Government House, built as a private home by Macanese architect Thomaz de Aquino.[8]
- Murney Tower, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- Newstead House, Brisbane, Australia.[9]
- Notre-Dame de Bon-Port, Nantes, France, designed by Seheult and Joseph-Fleury Chenantais.
- Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire, Wales, designed by Thomas Penson.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred-Nicolas Normand.
- September 4 – Daniel Burnham, American architect and urban designer (died 1912)[10]
- James E. Ware, American architect, originator of the "dumbbell plan" for New York City tenements (died 1918)
- January 22 – Louis Baltard, French architect and engraver (born 1764)[11]
- "Nizamat Imambara". India, the pristine beauty. Online Highways LLC. 29 September 2005. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
- "Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral". Giga-Catholic. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- "Trinity Church, New York City". Sacred Destinations. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- "History". Liverpool: Albert Dock. Archived from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- El Archipiélago Filipino. Washington: Imprenta del Gobierno. 1900. p. 531.
- Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
- "NRHP nomination for Grace Church" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
- "San Ma Lo". Walking Tours. Macau Government Tourist Office. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- Dalton, Trent (2002-11-20). "Grand residence". Brisbane News. Nationwide News Pty Ltd. p. 16.
- Moore, Charles (1921). "XXV: Closing in 1911–1912". Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities. Vol. 2. Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baltard, Louis Pierre" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.