1866 in architecture
The year 1866 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- The seat of the Norwegian Parliament, Storting building, designed by Emil Victor Langlet, Inaugurated 5 March
- The building of Nationalgalerie starts in Berlin, designed by Friedrich August Stüler and Johann Heinrich Strack.
- The New Synagogue, Berlin, Germany is completed by Friedrich August Stüler to the design of Eduard Knoblauch.
- St. Mark's Church, Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, designed by Robert Lewis Roumieu, is consecrated.
- The Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Australia by architect William Pitt is completed.
- Basilique Notre-Dame de Marienthal is completed
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Matthew Digby Wyatt.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Louis Pascal.
Births
- February 15 – Banister Fletcher, English architect and architectural historian
- February 23 – Joseph Miller Huston, American architect working in Pennsylvania
- June 14 – Henry Sproatt, Canadian architect
- July 14 – Ragnar Östberg, Swedish architect
- July 29 – Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland, Norwegian architect
- August 1 – Claude Fayette Bragdon, American architect
- November 28 – Henry Bacon, American Beaux-Arts architect