1866 in architecture
# 1866 in architecture

The year 1866 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* The seat of the Norwegian Parliament, 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.
* Basilique Notre-Dame de Marienthal is completed

## Awards

* RIBA 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)
