1856 in architecture

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 The year 1856 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structuresEdit

February – State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Joseph Reed<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>

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>

Future English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is apprenticed to architect James Hicks in Dorchester, Dorset.

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)

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>