1890 in architecture

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The year 1890 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1890

Buildings

Forth Bridge

• February 3 – Ypsilanti Water Tower, Ypsilanti, Michigan, designed by William R. Coats, is completed.^[1]
• March 4 – The Forth Bridge across the Firth of Forth from South Queensferry to North Queensferry in Scotland, designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, is opened.^[2]
• May 13 - Parish church of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London, designed by J. D. Sedding, is consecrated.^[3]
• May 30 – The James A. Garfield Memorial at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by George W. Keller, is dedicated.^[4]
• September 29 – St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, Westminster, designed by Edward Goldie, is opened.^[5]
• The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by John Eisenmann.^[6]
• The Demarest Building, a commercial building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, is completed.^[7]
• Edwin Lutyens' first commission, Crooksbury, a country house near Farnham, England, is completed.^[8]
• The Second Madison Square Garden, designed by Stanford White, is completed on the site of the first Madison Square Garden.^[9]

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Gibson.^[10]
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Emmanuel Pontremoli.^[11]

Births

• February 9 – J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect (died 1963)^[12]
• April 17 – Carl Krayl, German architect (died 1947)^[13]
• March 20 – Owen Williams, English structural engineer (died 1969)^[14]
• May 4 – Ingrid Wallberg, Swedish architect (died 1965)^[15]
• July 31 – Louis de Soissons, Canadian-born English architect (died 1962)^[16]
• November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian architect and designer (died 1941)^[17]
• Philip Hepworth, English architect (died 1963)^[18]

Deaths

• October 20 – Alfred B. Mullett, American architect (born 1834)^[19]

References

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2. Mitton, G. E. (1905). Black's Guide to Scotland. Рипол Классик. p. 79. ISBN 9785880702190.
3. "Holy Trinity". www.buildingconservation.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
4. "Postcards of Cleveland". Cleveland State University Library. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
5. Historic England. "Presbytery to the Roman Catholic Church of St James, Non Civil Parish (1430834)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
6. Miller, Carol Poh; Wheeler, Robert Anthony (1997). Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796-1996. Indiana University Press. p. 96. ISBN 0253211476.
7. Gray, Christopher. "Echoes of Carnegie Hall on Fifth Avenue". nytimes. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
8. Historic England. "CROOKSBURY HOUSE, FIG TREE COURT AND WEST WING, Tilford (1294507)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
9. "Mad. Sq. History: Madison Square Garden". Madison Square Park. Madison Square Park Conservancy. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
10. "John Gibson". www.scottisharchitects.org.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
11. Cassanelli, Roberto (2002). Ruins of Ancient Rome: The Drawings of French Architects who Won the Prix de Rome, 1786-1924. Getty Publications. p. 19. ISBN 9780892366804.
12. "Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890-1963)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
13. Warnat, Grit. "Der Baukünstler von Magdeburg". m.volksstimme.de (in German). Retrieved 8 August 2018.
14. "Williams, Sir (Evan) Owen (1890–1969), civil engineer and architect". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51931. Retrieved 8 August 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
15. Brügge, Anne (2018-03-08). "Ingrid Wallberg". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
16. "Louis de Soissons". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
17. "Else Lissitzky". www.guggenheim.org. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
18. Miller, Mervyn (2015). English Garden Cities: An introduction. Historic England. p. 56. ISBN 9781848023208.
19. "Albert B. Mullett". Retrieved 8 August 2018.