1858 in architecture

• The competition to design Central Park in New York City is won by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. • Eugène Viollet-le-Duc begins publication of his ''Entretiens sur l'architecture'' in book form, systematizing his approach to architecture and architectural education in a method radically opposed to that of the École des Beaux-Arts, and notable for its use of drawings in axonometric projection. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings , Covent Garden • The Hamilton Mausoleum in Scotland is completed to an 1842 design by David Hamilton by David Bryce with sculptor Alexander Handyside Ritchie. • Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg (Russia) is completed to an 1818 design by Auguste de Montferrand. • Trinity Church (Oslo) in Norway, designed by Alexis de Chateauneuf and Wilhelm von Hanno, is consecrated. • New parish Church of St George, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is consecrated. • Wesley Church, Melbourne, Australia, is opened. • Leopoldstädter Tempel (synagogue) in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Förster, is built. • Grand Synagogue of Aden is built. • Church of the Resurrection in Katowice (Poland) is completed. • Fishergate Baptist Church in Preston, Lancashire (England), designed by James Hibbert and Nathan Rainford, is completed. • Leeds Town Hall in Yorkshire (England), designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, is completed. • Ontario County Courthouse in Canandaigua, New York, is built. • United States Customhouse and Post Office (Bath, Maine) is built. • The Liverpool, London and Globe Building (insurance office) in Liverpool (England), designed by C. R. Cockerell, is completed. • The West of England and South Wales Bank in Bristol (England), designed by Bruce Gingell and T. R. Lysaght, is completed. • The rebuilt Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, designed by Edward Middleton Barry, is completed. • St James's Hall (concert hall), Piccadilly, London, designed by Owen Jones, is opened. • Hownes Gill Viaduct in County Durham, England, designed by Thomas Bouch, is opened. • New westwork at Speyer Cathedral (Bavaria), designed by Heinrich Hübsch, is completed. • Construction of Woodchester Mansion (Spring Park) in Gloucestershire, England, designed by Benjamin Bucknall, is begun; work is abandoned in the 1870s. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Friedrich August Stüler. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Georges-Ernest Coquart. ==Births==

• March 9 – Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer and architect (died 1942) • August 9 – John William Simpson, English architect (died 1933) • October 30 – Wilson Eyre, American architect (died 1944) • December 26 – Torolf Prytz, Norwegian architect, goldsmith and Liberal politician (died 1938) • Leonard Stokes, English architect (died 1925) ==Deaths==

• February 19 – Alexander Black, Scottish architect (born c.1790) • February 24 – Thomas Hamilton, Scottish architect (born 1784) • June 28 – Auguste de Montferrand, French-born architect (born 1786) • November 12 – Edward Cresy, English architect and civil engineer (born 1792) • November 14 – Benjamin Green, English architect (born 1813) ==References==