1816 in architecture

• February – Carl Ludvig Engel is appointed architect for the reconstruction of Helsinki.
• In Paris, the Académie royale d'architecture merges with the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (the French Academy) to become the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the French National School of Fine Arts.

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• First Church of Christ, Lancaster, Massachusetts, designed by Charles Bulfinch, is built.
• First Unitarian Church of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by John Holden Greene, is completed.
• Karlsruhe Stadtkirche (Baden), designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner, is completed.
• Greater Church of the Ascension in Moscow, attributed to Matvey Kazakov or Ivan Starov, is completed.
• Stone Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, designed by Shangin, is completed about this date.
• Circular church of San Francesco di Paola (Naples) is completed.
• St Andrew's Church, Glasgow, Scotland (Roman Catholic), designed by James Gillespie Graham, is completed.
• Walcot Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bath, England, designed by Rev. William Jenkins, is completed.
• Wellington Rooms, Liverpool, England, designed by Edmund Aikin, are completed.
• Fredericksburg Town Hall and Market Square in Virginia are completed.
• Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum in England, designed by Thomas Standen, is opened.
• South Wing of Sydney Hospital in Australia is completed.
• Berkshire County Courthouse, Lenox, Massachusetts, is completed.
• Théâtre des Funambules in Paris is built.
• Lord Hill's Column in Shrewsbury, England, designed by Edward Haycock, Sr. and Thomas Harrison, is completed.
• Tenantry Column in Alnwick, England, designed by David Stephenson, is erected.
• Vauxhall Bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge, crossing the River Thames in central London, designed by James Walker, is opened; it is replaced in 1895–1906.
• Richmond Bridge, crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, designed by James Savage, is opened.{{Structurae|id=20005737|title=O'Donovan Rossa Bridge}}
• The Ha'penny Bridge (Wellington Bridge), crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, is erected.
• Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill in Pennsylvania is erected by ironmakers Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, the first wire-cable suspension bridge in history.{{cite journal|last=Peterson|first=Charles E.|title=The Spider Bridge: a curious work at the Falls of Schuylkill, 1816|journal=Canal History and Technology Proceedings|volume=5|date=1986-03-22|pages=243–59}}
• Design of Bahu Begum ka Maqbara in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh by Darab Ali Khan.

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Lucien Van Cleemputte.

• July 11 – Frans-Andries Durlet, Belgian architect and sculptor (died 1867)
• August 9 – Patrick Keely, Irish-American architect based in Brooklyn (died 1896){{cite web|last=Decker |first=Kevin F. |url=http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/kevin.decker/Research%20Information/Keely.htm |title=Patrick Charles Keely (1816–1896) |publisher=University of Plattsburgh |location=New York |year=2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027094839/https://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/kevin.decker/Research%20Information/Keely.htm |archive-date=2009-10-27 }}
• August 29 – Gridley James Fox Bryant, Boston architect and builder (died 1899){{cite book|first=Roger G.|last=Reed|url=https://archive.org/details/buildingvictoria0000reed|url-access=registration|title=Building Victorian Boston: the architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-55849-555-5}}

• April 3 – Thomas Machin, English-born canal builder and military engineer in the United States (born 1744)

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