1839 in architecture

• May – Cambridge Camden Society is established in England by John Mason Neale, Alexander Hope and Benjamin Webb to promote Gothic architecture; also this year the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society is founded as the Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings completed with original façade • Ponce Cathedral, Puerto Rico • St Mary's Church, Derby, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Augustus Pugin • St Francis Xavier Church, Hereford, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Charles Day • Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester, England (Unitarian), designed by Charles Barry • Halifax County Courthouse (Virginia), designed by Dabney Cosby • Old Customshouse (Erie, Pennsylvania), designed by William Kelly • Lyceum (Alexandria, Virginia) • Åbo Svenska Teater, Åbo (Turku), Finland • Pulkovo Observatory, Russia • Söderarm, lighthouse, Sweden • Nine Elms railway station, London, designed by William Tite • Avon, Maidenhead and Moulsford Railway Bridges on the Great Western Railway of England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel • Queen's Tower (Sheffield), England, a house designed by Woodhead & Hurst • Wrest Park near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England, a house designed by Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, for himself ==Awards==

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Hector Lefuel. ==Births==

• May 17 – Alexander Davidson, Scottish architect active in Australia (died 1908) • June 13 • Robert William Edis, English architect and interior decorator (died 1927) • Ernest George, English architect and painter (died 1922) • October 8 – George Gilbert Scott Jr., English architect (died 1897) • October 29 – Imre Steindl, Hungarian architect (died 1902) • November 12 – Frank Furness, American architect (died 1912) ==Deaths==

• January 24 – Michele Cachia, Maltese architect and military engineer (born 1760) • May 22 – William Atkinson, English Gothic Revival country house architect (born 1774/5) • August 31 – William Wilkins, English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist (born 1778) • November 15 – Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born 1743) ==References==