1856 in architecture

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

Buildings and structures

February – State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Joseph Reed^[1]
May 15 – Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Turkey^[2]
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^[3]

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]

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"^[6] (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)^[7]
March 27 – David Laing, British architect (born 1774)^[8]

^ McCallum, C. A. (1976). "Tulk, Augustus Henry (1810–1873)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
^ "Rumelifeneri" (in Turkish). Rumelifeneri. Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
^ Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
^ "Database Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Bremen". Landherrnamt & St.-Johannis-Schule (in German)
^ Kyonka, Nick (2007-05-20). "Historic building dies of neglect". Toronto Star.
^ Kaufman, Mervyn D. (1969). Father of Skyscrapers: A Biography of Louis Sullivan. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
^ "Robert Reid". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
^ Colvin, H. M. (1997). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840. ISBN 0-300-07207-4.