page_title: 1856 in architecture
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1856 in architecture / Births
caption_attribution_description: Carbon print of Robert Reid (8th November 1774 - 20th March 1856)
context_page_description: The year 1856 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
context_section_description: January 7 – Sydney Mitchell, Scottish architect (died 1930)
  January 21 – Gustaf Nyström, Finnish architect (died 1917)
  February 12 – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (died 1934)
  August 5 – Axel Berg, Danish architect (died 1929)
  September 3 – Louis Sullivan, American architect, "father of skyscrapers" (died 1924)
  September 23 – John Bilson, English architect and architectural historian (died 1943)
  December 20 – Reginald Blomfield, English architect (died 1942)
  date unknown – Eugène Vallin, French architect, furniture designer and manufacturer (died 1922)
caption: Robert Reid
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