1861 in architecture

Buildings completed • 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. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Jean-Baptiste Lesueur. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Constant Moyaux. ==Births==

• January 6 – Victor Horta, Belgian architect and designer (died 1947) • 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) ==Deaths==

• May 15 – Benjamin Woodward, Irish architect (born 1816) • October 13 – Sir William Cubitt, English civil engineer (born 1785) ==References==