1858 in architecture

Events

• The competition to design Central Park in New York City is won by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
• Eugène Viollet-le-Duc begins publication of his Entretiens sur l'architecture in book form, systematizing his approach to architecture and architectural education in a method radically opposed to that of the École des Beaux-Arts, and notable for its use of drawings in axonometric projection.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• The Hamilton Mausoleum in Scotland is completed to an 1842 design by David Hamilton by David Bryce with sculptor Alexander Handyside Ritchie.
• Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg is completed to an 1818 design by Auguste de Montferrand.
• Trinity Church (Oslo) in Norway, designed by Alexis de Chateauneuf and Wilhelm von Hanno, is consecrated.
• New parish Church of St George, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is consecrated.
• Wesley Church, Melbourne, Australia, is opened.
• Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Förster, is built.
• Grand Synagogue of Aden is built.
• Church of the Resurrection in Katowice is completed.
• Fishergate Baptist Church in Preston, Lancashire, designed by James Hibbert and Nathan Rainford, is completed.
• Leeds Town Hall in Yorkshire, designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, is completed.
• Ontario County Courthouse in Canandaigua, New York, is built.
• United States Customhouse and Post Office (Bath, Maine) is built.
• The Liverpool, London and Globe Building in Liverpool, designed by C. R. Cockerell, is completed.
• The West of England and South Wales Bank in Bristol, designed by Bruce Gingell and T. R. Lysaght, is completed.
• The rebuilt Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, designed by Edward Middleton Barry, is completed.
• St James's Hall, Piccadilly, London, designed by Owen Jones, is opened.
• Hownes Gill Viaduct in County Durham, England, designed by Thomas Bouch, is opened.
• New westwork at Speyer Cathedral, designed by Heinrich Hübsch, is completed.
• Construction of Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire, England, designed by Benjamin Bucknall, is begun; work is abandoned in the 1870s.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Friedrich August Stüler.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Georges-Ernest Coquart.

Births

• March 9 – Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer and architect
• August 9 – John William Simpson, English architect
• October 30 – Wilson Eyre, American architect
• December 26 – Torolf Prytz, Norwegian architect, goldsmith and Liberal politician
• Leonard Stokes, English architect

Deaths

• February 19 – Alexander Black, Scottish architect
• February 24 – Thomas Hamilton, Scottish architect
• June 28 – Auguste de Montferrand, French-born architect
• November 12 – Edward Cresy, English architect and civil engineer
• November 14 – Benjamin Green, English architect