1886 in architecture

• Patrick Manogue, Sacramento's first bishop, acquires the land to build the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in the United States, designed by Bryan J. Klinch. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened . Oil on canvas. The J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York. • June 30 – Founder's Building at Royal Holloway College for women, Egham, near London, designed by William Henry Crossland. • July – Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, designed by Christian Jank and realized by Eduard Riedel, is opened to the public, although incomplete. • October 28 – Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, United States, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi with engineering by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin. • October 31 – Dom Luís Bridge in Porto, designed by Téophile Seyrig. Buildings completed • Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, designed by John C. Cochrane and Alfred H. Piquenard • National Assembly building in Sofia, designed by Konstantin Jovanović. • Hotel Cecil, London, United Kingdom, designed by Perry & Reed. • Hawick Town Hall, Scotland, designed by James Campbell Walker. • Oulu City Hall, Finland, designed by Johan Erik Stenberg. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Garnier. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert Louvet (First Prize & Second). ==Births==

• March 24 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect (died 1945) • March 27 • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (died 1969) • Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer (died 1983) • June 17 – George Howe, American International Style architect and educator (died 1955) • July 27 – Ernst May, German architect and city planner (died 1970) • Yehuda Magidovitch, Ukrainian-born Israeli architect (died 1961) ==Deaths==

• April 18 – Sancton Wood, English railway station architect (born 1815) • April 27 – Henry Hobson Richardson, American architect (born 1838) • July 17 – David Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1815) • October 6 – E. W. Godwin, English architect and designer (born 1833) • November 4 – George Devey, English country house architect (born 1820) ==References==