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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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)[3]
- 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)[4]
- 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
- ^ "Grande Synagogue de Paris". Grande Synagogue de Paris. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
- ^ Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2001). Lancashire: Manchester And The South-East. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-300-10583-4.
- ^ Harrison, Michael (2009). Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects. Ballard, Phillada (ed.). Wetherby: Oblong for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society. ISBN 978-0-9556576-2-7.
- ^ Vol. 3. p. 286.