The year 1848 in architecture involved some significant events.
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Buildings
- April 8 â Newmarket railway station in Suffolk, England is opened.
- May 1 â Stamford railway station in Lincolnshire, England, designed by Sancton Wood, is opened.
- June 19 â Monkwearmouth railway station in north-east England, designed by Thomas Moore, is opened.
- October â The Palm house at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London), designed by architect Decimus Burton and iron-founder Richard Turner, is completed and opened.
- October 9 â Stoke-on-Trent railway station in north Staffordshire, England, designed by H. A. Hunt, is opened.
- October 12 â Gobowen railway station in Shropshire, England, designed by Thomas Mainwaring Penson, is opened.
- October 25 â 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 â Mortimer railway station in Berkshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened.
- November 20 â 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 .
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