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The following architectural events occurred in the year 1856.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

thumb|[[Esztergom Basilica, Hungary]]

thumb|The [[Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia]]

  • February – State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Joseph Reed
  • May 15 – Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 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

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
  • Walnut Hall, Toronto, Canada, designed by John Tully as O'Donohoe Row (demolished 2007)

Events

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

Awards

  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Tite.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Edmond Guillaume.

Births

  • 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" (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)

Deaths

thumb|upright|[[Robert Reid (architect)|Robert Reid]]

  • March 20 – Robert Reid, King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839 (born 1774)
  • March 27 – David Laing, British architect (born 1774)

References