Editing 1856 in architecture

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The year '''1856 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1856}}
===Buildings opened===
[[File:EsztergomBasilica-South.jpg|thumb|[[Esztergom Basilica]], Hungary]]
[[File:Victoria Parliament House Melbourne.jpg|thumb|The [[Parliament House, Melbourne]], Australia]]
* February – [[State Library of Victoria]] in [[Melbourne]], Australia, designed by [[Joseph Reed (architect)|Joseph Reed]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tulk-augustus-henry-4756|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|access-date=2015-03-03|title=Tulk, Augustus Henry (1810–1873)|first=C. A.|last=McCallum|year=1976}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Rumeli Feneri]], Istanbul, Turkey<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rumelifeneri.com/Forum.asp?forum=oku&msgid=854|publisher=Rumelifeneri|title=Rumelifeneri|language=Turkish|access-date=2010-06-06|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715212809/https://www.rumelifeneri.com/Forum.asp?forum=oku&msgid=854|archive-date=2011-07-15}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] – The [[Esztergom Basilica]] in Hungary, designed by Pál Kühnel and [[József Hild]] (consecrated)
* [[October 4]] – [[Lindau Lighthouse]], Bavaria
* [[November 1]] – [[Stamford East railway station|Stamford Water Street railway station]] in Lincolnshire, England, designed by William Hurst<ref>{{cite book|first=Gordon |last=Biddle|title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-19-866247-5}}</ref>

===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<ref>{{WP-HB LfD|0292|Database Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Bremen}} Landherrnamt & St.-Johannis-Schule {{in lang|de}}</ref>
* [[Walnut Hall]], Toronto, Canada, designed by John Tully as O'Donohoe Row (demolished 2007)<ref>{{cite news|last=Kyonka|first=Nick|title=Historic building dies of neglect|work=[[Toronto Star]]|date=2007-05-20}}</ref>

==Events==
* Future English novelist and poet [[Thomas Hardy]] is [[Apprenticeship|apprenticed]] to architect James Hicks in [[Dorchester, Dorset]].

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[William Tite]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: [[:fr:Edmond Guillaume|Edmond Guillaume]].

==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]])

==Deaths==
[[File:Robert Reid by Hill & Adamson, 1847.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Robert Reid (architect)|Robert Reid]]]]
* [[March 20]] – [[Robert Reid (architect)|Robert Reid]], King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839 (born [[1774 in architecture|1774]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201279|title=Robert Reid|work=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|access-date=2015-03-03}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – [[David Laing (architect)|David Laing]], British architect (born 1774)<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Howard Colvin|last=Colvin|first=H. M.|year=1997|title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840|isbn=0-300-07207-4}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1856 works|Architecture]]
[[Category:Years in architecture]]
[[Category:19th-century architecture]]