1842 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• March 28 – The Teatr Skarbkowski in Lviv, designed by Jan Salzmann and Ludwig Pichl, opens.
• June 23 – The Ponte delle Sirenette in Milan, built by Francesco Tettamanzi, is inaugurated.
• October 18 – The Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, designed by Leo von Klenze, is inaugurated.
• Treasury Building (Washington, D.C.), designed by Robert Mills, central and east wings completed,
• Construction of Berry Hill, near Halifax, Virginia starts.
• Iglesia de la Matriz, Valparaíso, Chile, completed.
• Kawaiahaʻo Church, Honolulu, Hawaii, designed by Rev. Hiram Bingham, completed.
• St Mary's Church, Wreay, Cumberland, England, designed by Sara Losh, consecrated.
• Ak Mosque, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, completed.
• Circular church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, England, restored by Anthony Salvin.
• Cologne Cathedral construction work is recommenced after 400 years by the Central-Dombauverein zu Köln.

Publications

• Andrew Jackson Downing – ''Cottage Residences''

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Philippe-Auguste Titeux.

Births

• June 12 – Harry Hems, English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor
• September 17 – Basil Champneys, English architect
• December 12 – Alfred Parland, Russian architect
• December 15 – George Keller, American architect

Deaths

• October 18 – John Harper, English architect