1866 in architecture

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The year 1866 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Norwegian Parlament «Stortinget», constructed 1860-1866

New Synagogue, Berlin

• The seat of the Norwegian Parlament, Storting building, designed by Emil Victor Langlet, Inaugurated 5 March
• The building of Nationalgalerie starts in Berlin, designed by Friedrich August Stüler and Johann Heinrich Strack.
• The New Synagogue, Berlin, Germany is completed by Friedrich August Stüler to the design of Eduard Knoblauch.
• St. Mark's Church, Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, designed by Robert Lewis Roumieu, is consecrated.
• The Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Australia by architect William Pitt is completed.
• The Plaka Bridge in Greece is completed by Kostas Bekas.^[1]

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Matthew Digby Wyatt.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Louis Pascal.

Births

• February 15 - Banister Fletcher, English architect and architectural historian (died 1953)
• February 23 - Joseph Miller Huston, American architect working in Pennsylvania (died 1940)
• June 14 - Henry Sproatt, Canadian architect (died 1934)
• July 14 - Ragnar Östberg, Swedish architect (died 1945)
• July 29 - Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland, Norwegian architect (died 1926)
• August 1 - Claude Fayette Bragdon, American architect (died 1946)
• November 28 - Henry Bacon, American Beaux-Arts architect (died 1924)

Deaths

• March 23 - Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolor painter (born 1814)

References

1. Leftheris, B. P.; et al. (2006). "A bridge built in 1866 in Plaka, Greece". Computational Mechanics for Heritage Structures. Southampton, UK: WIT Press. pp. 147–153. ISBN 1-84564-034-9.