Buildings (1848) • April 8 –
Newmarket railway station in Suffolk, England is opened. • May 1 –
Stamford railway station in Lincolnshire, England, designed by
Sancton Wood, is opened. • June 19 –
Monkwearmouth railway station in north-east England, designed by Thomas Moore, is opened. • October – 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 –
Stoke-on-Trent railway station in north Staffordshire, England, designed by H. A. Hunt, is opened. • October 12 –
Gobowen railway station in Shropshire, England, designed by
Thomas Mainwaring Penson, is opened. • October 25 –
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 –
Mortimer railway station in Berkshire, England, designed by
I. K. Brunel, is opened. • November 20 –
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
Cisternino di città. ==Awards==