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1874 in architecture

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The year 1874 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

  • George Devey begins to remodel Ascott House (near Wing, Buckinghamshire) in England.
  • Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is completed.
  • Watts & Co. established as an interior design and furnishings company in London by George Frederick Bodley, Thomas Garner and George Gilbert Scott Jr.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

  • California State Capitol in Sacramento, California, USA.
  • Eads Bridge at St. Louis, USA, designed by James B. Eads.
  • Grand Synagogue of Paris, France, designed by Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe.
  • Palais Garnier (opera house), Paris, France, designed by Charles Garnier.
  • St. Nicholas' Church, Hamburg, Germany, designed by George Gilbert Scott.
  • Wahnfried, Richard Wagner's villa in Bayreuth, Germany.
  • The Ancoats Hospital, an enlargement of the current building, in Manchester, designed by Lewis and Crawcroft, opens.
  • Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Sarajevo, designed by Andrey Damyanov

Awards

  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – George Edmund Street.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Benoît Édouard Loviot.

Births

  • February 12 – Auguste Perret, French architect, pioneer of reinforced concrete (died 1954)
  • March 10 – Karl Lindahl, Finnish-Swedish architect (died 1930)
  • April 11 – William Alexander Harvey, English architect of Bournville (died 1951)
  • April 24 – John Russell Pope, American architect (died 1937)
  • October 21 – Edwin Cooper, English architect (died 1942)

Deaths

  • January 13 – Victor Baltard, French architect (born 1805)
  • April 13 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (born 1800)
  • April 19 – Owen Jones, Anglo-Welsh architect (born 1809)
  • August 3 – Carl Tietz, German architect working in Vienna (born 1831)
  • September 3 – John Rennie the Younger, English civil engineer (born 1794)
  • November 14 – Robert William Billings, British Gothic Revival architectural draughtsman and architect (born 1812)

References

References

  1. "Grande Synagogue de Paris". Grande Synagogue de Paris.
  2. (2001). "Lancashire: Manchester And The South-East". Yale University Press.
  3. Harrison, Michael. (2009). "Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects". Oblong for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society.
  4. {{cite EB1911
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