1861 in architecture

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The year 1861 in architecture involved some significant architectural event and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Arlington Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, designed by Arthur Gilman.
St James the Less, Pimlico, London, designed by George Edmund Street.
All Saints Notting Hill, London, designed by William White in 1852.
St. Michael's Church, Berlin, designed by August Soller (who is buried here) in 1845 and completed by Richard Lucae (his nephew), Andreas Simons and Martin Gropius.
Tromsø Cathedral, Norway, designed by Christian Heinrich Grosch.
Palácio do Grão-Pará, Petrópolis, Brazil, designed by Theodore Marx with de Araújo Porto Alegre.
Mary Birdsall House in Richmond, Indiana.

January 6 – Victor Horta, Belgian architect and designer (died 1947)^[1]
April 20 – Hermann Muthesius, German architect and writer on architecture (died 1927)
July 17 – Horace Field, English architect (died 1948)
September 2 – Arthur Beresford Pite, English architect (died 1934)

^ Aubry, Françoise; Vandenbreeden, Jos (1996). Horta — Art Nouveau to Modernism. Ghent: Ludion Press. ISBN 0-8109-6333-7.
^ Dodgson, Campbell (1901). "Woodward, Benjamin" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.