1856 in architecture
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The year 1856 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- February â State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Joseph Reed[1]
- May 15 â Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Turkey[2]
- August 31 â The Esztergom Basilica in Hungary, designed by Pál Kühnel and József Hild (consecrated)
- October 4 â Lindau Lighthouse, Bavaria
- November 1 â Stamford Water Street railway station in Lincolnshire, England, designed by William Hurst[3]
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[4]
- Walnut Hall, Toronto, Canada, designed by John Tully as O'Donohoe Row (demolished 2007)[5]
Events
- Future English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is apprenticed to architect James Hicks in Dorchester, Dorset.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â William Tite.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Edmond Guillaume.
Births
- January 7 â Sydney Mitchell, Scottish architect (died 1930)
- January 21 â Gustaf Nyström, Finnish architect (died 1917)
- February 12 â Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (died 1934)
- August 5 â Axel Berg, Danish architect (died 1929)
- September 3 â Louis Sullivan, American architect, "father of skyscrapers"[6] (died 1924)
- September 23 â John Bilson, English architect and architectural historian (died 1943)
- October 30 â Edward Prioleau Warren, English architect (died 1937)
- December 20 â Reginald Blomfield, English architect (died 1942)
- date unknown â Eugène Vallin, French architect, furniture designer and manufacturer (died 1922)
Deaths
- March 20 â Robert Reid, King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839 (born 1774)[7]
- March 27 â David Laing, British architect (born 1774)[8]