1853 in architecture

The year 1853 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

Fastnet Rock Lighthouse is completed at the most southerly point of Ireland.
The New York Crystal Palace is constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
The New York Cotton Exchange building is completed in New York City.
Rhode Island Tool Company building is completed in Providence, Rhode Island.
Charlbury railway station in Oxfordshire, England, designed by I. K. Brunel, is opened.{{cite book|first=Gordon|last=Biddle|title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-19-866247-5}}

February 26 – Antonio Rivas Mercado, Mexican architect, engineer and restorer (died 1927){{cite book|editor=Turner, Jane|year=1996|title=The Dictionary of Art|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofart06turn|url-access=registration|location=New York|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries|isbn=1-884446-00-0}}
June 21 – Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist (died 1930)
August 28 (August 16 O.S.) – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian structural engineer (died 1939)
September 11 – Stanford White, American architect (died 1906){{cite book|author=Baker, Paul R.|title=Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White|publisher=The Free Press|location=New York|year=1989|isbn=0-02-901781-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/stannygildedlife00bake}}

December 12 – William Nichols, English-born American Neoclassical architect (born 1780){{cite book|author1=Mellown, Robert O. |author2=Peatross, C. Ford |year=1979|title=William Nichols, architect|location=Tuscaloosa|publisher=University of Alabama Art Gallery|pages=1–6}}