1895 in architecture

none 1895 architecture The year 1895 in architecture involved some significant events. Events William Alexander Harvey, aged 20, is appointed architect for the newly laid-out model village of Bournville in Birmingham, England. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1895 Buildings thumb|upright|Refuge Assurance Building, Manchester Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche), Berlin, Germany, by Franz Heinrich Schwechten, is consecrated. Holy Innocents Church, South Norwood, London, designed by George Frederick Bodley, is completed. Milwaukee City Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States is completed, giving it the title of tallest building in the world until 1899. Biltmore House on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, by Richard Morris Hunt is opened. Refuge Assurance Building in Manchester, England, by Alfred Waterhouse, is opened. Bishopsgate Institute in London, England, by Charles Harrison Townsend, is opened. New offices for The Glasgow Herald (now The Lighthouse) in Scotland, designed by John KeppieThe Lighthouse, Glasgow. Building information (leaflet). and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Pera Palace Hotel in Constantinople. D.T. Porter Building, the first steel frame skyscraper in Memphis, Tennessee, is completed. Designed by E.C. Jones.Robert W. Dye Memphis Pages 40, 65 2005 96 pages The Breakers, the largest of the Gilded Age mansions in Newport, Rhode Island is completed. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt.August 2023 Awards RIBA Royal Gold Medal – James Brooks. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: René Patouillard-Demoriane. Births July 12 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect (died 1983) September 28 – Wallace Harrison, American architect (died 1981) December 17 – Wells Coates, Japanese-born Canadian architect working in England (died 1958) Deaths April 23 – Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways (born 1808) June 23 – James Renwick Jr., American architect (born 1818) References