1844 in architecture

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

Buildings and structures

June 12 – Abingdon Road railway station near Culham on the line to Oxford in England, designed by I. K. Brunel.
August 21 – St Mary's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne (Roman Catholic, later Cathedral) in England, designed by Augustus Pugin.[1]
August 27 – St Barnabas Church, Nottingham (Roman Catholic, later Cathedral) in England, designed by Augustus Pugin.[1]
October – The Grange, Ramsgate (house), designed for himself by Augustus Pugin.[1]
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.
Berkshire County Gaol, Reading, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott with William Bonython Moffatt.
Berry Hill, near Halifax, Virginia.

March 6 – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh (born 1795; drowned).[2]
April 15 – Charles Bulfinch, first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession[3] (born 1763)

Hill, Rosemary (2008). God's Architect: Pugin and the building of romantic Britain. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-028099-9.
Bonnar, Thomas (1892). A Biographical Sketch of George Meikle Kemp. Edinburgh: Blackwood, pp.144–146
Baltzell, Edward Digby. Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia. Transaction Publishers (1996), p. 322–24. ISBN 1-56000-830-X.

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