1863 in architecture

The year 1863 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

January 10 – The Metropolitan Railway, London, England, is opened, the world's first underground railway (engineer: John Fowler).{{cite book|chapter=1863|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}}
December 2 – The Statue of Freedom is set on top of the new dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.Gale, Robert L. Thomas Crawford: American Sculptor, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1964, p. 190
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The École des Beaux-Arts in Paris becomes independent of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
William Burges is declared winner of the competition to design the new Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork (Church of Ireland), his first major commission.{{cite book|first1=David|last1=Lawrence|first2=Ann|last2=Wilson|title=The Cathedral of St Fin Barre at Cork: William Burges in Ireland|year=2006|location=Dublin|publisher=Four Courts Press|isbn=978-1-84682-023-6|page=19}}

March 2 – Clapham Junction railway station, London.
October 18 – Befreiungshalle memorial above Kelheim in Bavaria, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner and completed by Leo von Klenze, is inaugurated.
October 27 – Leeuwarden railway station in the Netherlands, designed by Charles van Brederode.
December 13 – Gulen Church, Eivindvik, Norway, designed by Georg Andreas Bull,{{cite web|url=http://www.kirkesok.no/eng/kirker/Gulen-kyrkje|title=Gulen kyrkje|publisher=Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen|access-date=2014-01-09}} consecrated by Dean Thomas Erichsen.

Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden.
Smíchov Synagogue, Prague, Czech Republic.{{cite web|url=http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/37531-smichov-s-historical-holdout.html|title=Smichov's historical holdout (June 19, 2003)|publisher=Prague Post|access-date=2011-09-11}}
Kelham Hall near Newark-on-Trent, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott.

April 3 – Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and interior designer (died 1957){{cite book|author1=Berko, P.|author2=Berko, V.|year=1981|title=Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875|publisher=Knokke|pages=684–85}}
May 17 – C. R. Ashbee, English interior designer (died 1942)
October 21 – Sir George Troup, New Zealand architect, engineer and statesman (died 1941)
December 16 – Ralph Adams Cram, American architect of academic and ecclesiastical buildings (died 1942)
W. G. R. Sprague, Australian-born British theatre architect (died 1933)

June 16 – Ludwig Förster, Austrian religious architect (died 1797)
September 17 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist and writer (born 1788){{cite book|title=The Life and Work of C. R. Cockerell|first=David|last=Watkin|year=1974|publisher=Zwemmer|isbn=0-302-02571-5}}
October 9 – Andrew Egan, Irish architect and builder (born c.1810){{cite journal|title=The Mark of a Man: The Life of Andrew Egan, Builder and Architect of Tuam|first=Deirdre|last=Goggin|pages=39–62|journal=Journal of the Old Tuam Society|volume=1|year=2004}}
October 28 – William Cubitt, English building and civil engineering contractor and politician (born 1791)
December 29 – Joseph John Scoles, English Catholic architect (born 1798){{cite book |last1=Brodie |first1=Antonia |last2=Library |first2=British Architectural |last3=Architects |first3=Royal Institute of British |title=Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z) |date=2001 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9780826455147 |page=553 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkThQYLb3ZUC&pg=PA553|language=en}}