1856 in architecture

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

Buildings opened

Esztergom Basilica

• 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)
• 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
• 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

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

Births

• 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)
• December 20 - Reginald Blomfield, English architect (died 1942)
• date unknown - Eugène Vallin, French architect, furniture designer and manufacturer (died 1922)

Deaths

• March 20 - Robert Reid, King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839 (born 1884)
• March 27 - David Laing, British architect (born 1774)