1856 in architecture
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
- May 15 – Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Turkey
- August 31 – The Esztergom Basilica in Hungary, designed by Pál Kühnel and József Hild
- October 4 – Lindau Lighthouse, Bavaria
- November 1 – Stamford Water Street railway station in Lincolnshire, England, designed by William Hurst
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
- Walnut Hall, Toronto, Canada, designed by John Tully as O'Donohoe Row
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
- January 21 – Gustaf Nyström, Finnish architect
- February 12 – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect
- August 5 – Axel Berg, Danish architect
- September 3 – Louis Sullivan, American architect, "father of skyscrapers"
- September 23 – John Bilson, English architect and architectural historian
- October 30 – Edward Prioleau Warren, English architect
- December 20 – Reginald Blomfield, English architect date unknown – Eugène Vallin, French architect, furniture designer and manufacturer
Deaths
- March 20 – Robert Reid, King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839
- March 27 – David Laing, British architect