1816 in architecture

The year 1816 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

 * February – Carl Ludvig Engel is appointed architect for the reconstruction of Helsinki.
 * In Paris, the Académie royale d'architecture merges with the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (the French Academy) to become the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the French National School of Fine Arts.

Buildings

 * First Church of Christ, Lancaster, Massachusetts, designed by Charles Bulfinch, is built.
 * First Unitarian Church of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by John Holden Greene, is completed.
 * Karlsruhe Stadtkirche (Baden), designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner, is completed.
 * Greater Church of the Ascension in Moscow, attributed to Matvey Kazakov or Ivan Starov, is completed.
 * Stone Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, designed by Shangin, is completed about this date.
 * Circular church of San Francesco di Paola (Naples) is completed.
 * St Andrew's Church, Glasgow, Scotland (Roman Catholic), designed by James Gillespie Graham, is completed.
 * Wellington Rooms, Liverpool, England, designed by Edmund Aikin, are completed.
 * Fredericksburg Town Hall and Market Square in Virginia are completed.
 * Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum in England, designed by Thomas Standen, is opened.
 * South Wing of Sydney Hospital in Australia is completed.
 * Berkshire County Courthouse, Lenox, Massachusetts, is completed.
 * Théâtre des Funambules in Paris is built.
 * Lord Hill's Column in Shrewsbury, England, designed by Edward Haycock, Sr. and Thomas Harrison, is completed.
 * Tenantry Column in Alnwick, England, designed by David Stephenson, is erected.
 * Vauxhall Bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge, crossing the River Thames in central London, designed by James Walker, is opened; it is replaced in 1895–1906.
 * Richmond Bridge, crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, designed by James Savage, is opened.
 * The Ha'penny Bridge (Wellington Bridge), crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, is erected.
 * Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill in Pennsylvania is erected by ironmakers Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, the first wire-cable suspension bridge in history.
 * Design of Bahu Begum ka Maqbara in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh by Darab Ali Khan.

Awards

 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Lucien Van Cleemputte.

Births

 * July 11 – Frans-Andries Durlet, Belgian architect and sculptor (died 1867)
 * August 9 – Patrick Keely, Irish-American architect based in Brooklyn (died 1896)
 * August 29 – Gridley James Fox Bryant, Boston architect and builder (died 1899)

Deaths

 * April 3 – Thomas Machin, English-born canal builder and military engineer in the United States (born 1744)