Editing 1856 in architecture (section)

==Births==
* [[January 7]] – [[Sydney Mitchell]], Scottish architect (died [[1930 in architecture|1930]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Gustaf Nyström]], Finnish architect (died [[1917 in architecture|1917]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Hendrik Petrus Berlage]], Dutch architect (died [[1934 in architecture|1934]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Axel Berg (architect)|Axel Berg]], Danish architect (died [[1929 in architecture|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 in architecture|1924]])
* [[September 23]] – [[John Bilson (architect)|John Bilson]], English architect and architectural historian (died [[1943 in architecture|1943]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Edward Prioleau Warren]], English architect (died [[1937 in architecture|1937]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Reginald Blomfield]], English architect (died [[1942 in architecture|1942]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Eugène Vallin]], French architect, furniture designer and manufacturer (died [[1922 in architecture|1922]])