1856 in architecture

none 1856 architecture The following architectural events occurred in the year 1856. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1856 Buildings opened thumb|Esztergom Basilica, Hungary thumb|The Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia February – State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Joseph Reedhttps://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tulk-augustus-henry-4756 Australian Dictionary of Biography 2015-03-03 Tulk, Augustus Henry (1810–1873) C. A. McCallum 1976 May 15 – Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Turkeyhttp://www.rumelifeneri.com/Forum.asp?forum=oku&msgid=854 Rumelifeneri Rumelifeneri Turkish 2010-06-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110715212809/https://www.rumelifeneri.com/Forum.asp?forum=oku&msgid=854 2011-07-15 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 HurstGordon Biddle Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites Oxford University Press 2003 0-19-866247-5 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 style0292 Database Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Bremen Landherrnamt & St.-Johannis-Schule de Walnut Hall, Toronto, Canada, designed by John Tully as O'Donohoe Row (demolished 2007)Kyonka Nick Historic building dies of neglect Toronto Star 2007-05-20 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"Kaufman, Mervyn D. (1969). Father of Skyscrapers: A Biography of Louis Sullivan. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (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 March 20 – Robert Reid, King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839 (born 1774)http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201279 Robert Reid Dictionary of Scottish Architects 2015-03-03 March 27 – David Laing, British architect (born 1774)Howard Colvin Colvin H. M. 1997 A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 0-300-07207-4 References Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture