1886 in architecture#Births
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The year 1886 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- Patrick Manogue, Sacramento's first bishop, acquires the land to build the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in the United States, designed by Bryan J. Klinch.{{cite book|author=Diocese of Sacramento|title=The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament|page=8|publisher=Editions Du Signe|year=2005}}
Buildings and structures
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=Buildings opened=
File:EdwardMoran-UnveilingTheStatueofLiberty1886Large.jpg. Oil on canvas. The J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York.]]
- June 30 – Founder's Building at Royal Holloway College for women, Egham, near London, designed by William Henry Crossland.
- July – Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, designed by Christian Jank and realized by Eduard Riedel, is opened to the public, although incomplete.
- October 28 – Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, United States, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi with engineering by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin.{{cite book|last=Khan|first=Yasmin Sabina|year=2010|title=Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty|location=Ithaca, New York|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-4851-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/enlighteningworl00khan/page/176 176]|url=https://archive.org/details/enlighteningworl00khan/page/176}}
- October 31 – Dom Luís Bridge in Porto, designed by Téophile Seyrig.
=Buildings completed=
- Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, designed by John C. Cochrane and Alfred H. Piquenard
- National Assembly building in Sofia, designed by Konstantin Jovanović.
- Hotel Cecil, London, United Kingdom, designed by Perry & Reed.
- Hawick Town Hall, Scotland, designed by James Campbell Walker.
- Oulu City Hall, Finland, designed by Johan Erik Stenberg.{{cite web|url=http://oulu.ouka.fi/kaupungintalo/english/mainbld.htm|title=Main building|publisher=City of Oulu|access-date=2013-08-13}}
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Garnier.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert Louvet (First Prize & Second).
Births
- March 24 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect (died 1945)
- March 27
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (died 1969){{cite book|last=Schulze|first=Franz|title=Mies Van Der Rohe; A Critical Biography|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1985|isbn=0-226-74059-5}}
- Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer (died 1983)
- June 17 – George Howe, American International Style architect and educator (died 1955)
- July 27 – Ernst May, German architect and city planner (died 1970){{cite book|first=Susan Rose|last=Henderson|title=The work of Ernst May, 1919–1930, part 1|year=1990}}
- Yehuda Magidovitch, Ukrainian-born Israeli architect (died 1961)
Deaths
- April 18 – Sancton Wood, English railway station architect (born 1815)
- April 27 – Henry Hobson Richardson, American architect (born 1838){{cite book|last=O'Gorman|first=James F.|authorlink=James F. O'Gorman|title=Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson|year=1997|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=978-0-684-83618-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/livingarchitectu00ogor/page/188 188]|url=https://archive.org/details/livingarchitectu00ogor/page/188}}
- July 17 – David Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1815)
- October 6 – E. W. Godwin, English architect and designer (born 1833)
- November 4 – George Devey, English country house architect (born 1820)