1856 in architecture

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

Esztergom Basilica, Hungary

The Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia

• 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]

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 ^[4]
• Walnut Hall, Toronto, Canada, designed by John Tully as O'Donohoe Row (demolished 2007) ^[5]

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" ^[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)

Deaths

Robert Reid

• 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]

References

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