1862 in architecture

Buildings opened • May 8 – Church of St Philip and St James, Oxford, designed by George Edmund Street. • May 12 – Ulster Hall, Belfast, designed by William J. Barre. • May 17 – Teatro Comunale Florence, Italy. • November 19 – Brekke Church, Norway, designed by Christian Henrik Grosch. Buildings completed , painted by the architect • Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, Queens, New York, USA. • Iron Clad Building, Cooperstown, New York, USA, designed by James Bogardus. • Laxmangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India. • Peace College Main Building, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. • Propylaea (Munich), designed by Leo von Klenze. • Rila Monastery, Bulgaria, by Alexi Rilets (reconstruction). • Government House, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, designed by Charles Tiffin. • Treasury Building, Melbourne, Australia, designed by J. J. Clark in 1857 (when he was 19). • Great Malvern railway station, England, designed by E. W. Elmslie. • Bow Bridge (Central Park), New York, designed by Calvert Vaux. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Willis. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: . ==Births==

• February 7 – Bernard Maybeck, American Arts and Crafts architect (died 1957) • February 19 – Lev Kekushev, Russian Art Nouveau architect (died 1916–1919?) • May 28 – Theodor Fischer, German architect (died 1938) • June 9 – Herbert Baker, English architect working in South Africa (died 1946) • October 21 – Folke Zettervall, Swedish architect (died 1955) • October 31 – Gerald Horsley, British architect (died 1917) • December 7 – Hans-Georg Tersling, Danish architect working in France (died 1920) ==Deaths==

• June 27 – John Henderson, Scottish ecclesiastical architect (born 1804) • December – Thomas Oliver, English classical architect (born 1791) • Thomas Ellis Owen, English architect working chiefly around Southsea (born 1805) ==References==