1856 in architecture
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 The year 1856 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- February – State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Joseph Reed<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- May 15 – Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Turkey<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- August 31 – The Esztergom Basilica in Hungary, designed by Pál Kühnel and József Hild (consecrated)
- October 4 – Lindau Lighthouse, Bavaria
- November 1 – Stamford Water Street railway station in Lincolnshire, England, designed by William Hurst<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Buildings completed
- Debating chambers of Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia, designed by General Charles Pasley
- Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Landherrnamt, Bremen, Germany, designed by Alexander Schröder in the Neo-Romanesque style<ref>Template:WP-HB LfD Landherrnamt & St.-Johannis-Schule Template:In lang</ref>
- Walnut Hall, Toronto, Canada, designed by John Tully as O'Donohoe Row (demolished 2007)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Events
- Future English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is apprenticed to architect James Hicks in Dorchester, Dorset.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Tite.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Edmond Guillaume.
Births
- January 7 – Sydney Mitchell, Scottish architect (died 1930)
- January 21 – Gustaf Nyström, Finnish architect (died 1917)
- February 12 – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (died 1934)
- August 5 – Axel Berg, Danish architect (died 1929)
- September 3 – Louis Sullivan, American architect, "father of skyscrapers"<ref>Kaufman, Mervyn D. (1969). Father of Skyscrapers: A Biography of Louis Sullivan. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.</ref> (died 1924)
- September 23 – John Bilson, English architect and architectural historian (died 1943)
- October 30 – Edward Prioleau Warren, English architect (died 1937)
- December 20 – Reginald Blomfield, English architect (died 1942)
- date unknown – Eugène Vallin, French architect, furniture designer and manufacturer (died 1922)
Deaths
- March 20 – Robert Reid, King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839 (born 1774)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- March 27 – David Laing, British architect (born 1774)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>