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1891 architecture
The year 1891 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1891
Buildings
thumb|Ludington Building – Chicago
thumb|Stadttheater Zürich, Switzerland
October 7 — Uris Library at Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller, opensUris Library Historical Tour: Introduction https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/uris-history https://web.archive.org/web/20160617140407/https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/uris-history dead June 17, 2016 Cornell University Library Cornell University 30 October 2018
Ludington Building – Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, earliest surviving steel-framed building in the city, and the earliest entirely terracotta-clad skyscraper (8 storeys).Ludington Building, 1104 Wabash Campus 1104 S. Wabash Ave. http://www.lib.colum.edu/archives/college/buildings/1104wabash.htm 2006 Columbia College Chicago 2012-05-28
Manhattan Building – Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, completed; world's earliest surviving steel-framed building to use a purely skeletal supporting structure.Manhattan Building, Chicago. Emporis Buildings (URL accessed 9 July 2006).Manhattan Building, 431 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL. American Memory from the Library of Congress (URL accessed 9 July 2006).
Second Leiter Building – Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney.
Monadnock Building – Chicago, tallest masonry load-bearing wall building when built.
Sacred Heart Cathedral – Davenport, Iowa, designed by James J. Egan.
St. Ambrose Cathedral – Des Moines, Iowa, designed by James J. Egan.
San Sebastian Church (Manila).
Wainwright Building – St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
University of Pennsylvania Library – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Furness.
Several buildings constructed for the General Land Centennial Exhibition world fair – Prague, including the Art Nouveau Průmyslový Palace.
Victoria Hall (Geneva), Switzerland, a concert hall designed by Marc Camoletti.
Stadttheater Zürich, designed by Fellner & Helmer, opened.
House of the Estates in Helsinki, Finland, built.
General Post Office, Birmingham, England, designed by Henry Tanner.
Palace Theatre, Manchester, England, designed by Alfred Darbyshire.
Château de l'Île (Schloss Inselburg), Ostwald, Bas-Rhin, France (then Germany).
Awards
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Arthur Blomfield.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henri Eustache.
Births
January 2 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, urban planner and engraver (died 1990)
August 2 – Joseph Charles Fowell, Australian architect (died 1970)
date unknown – Kanippayyur Shankaran Namboodiripad, Nambudiri Brahmin and Royal Architect (died 1981)
date unknown – Giuseppe Psaila, Maltese Art Nouveau architect (died 1960)
Deaths
January 11 – Baron Haussmann, French civic planner notable for the rebuilding of Paris in the 1860s (born 1809)David H. Pinkney Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 1958 Paperback 1972 0-691-00768-3
January 15 – John Wellborn Root, Chicago architect (born 1850; pneumonia)Lanctot Barbara A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery Chicago Architectural Foundation 1988 14–15
January 22 – Miklós Ybl, Hungarian architect (born 1814)
January 23 – Friedrich von Schmidt, Austrian architect working in Vienna (born 1825)
March 19 – Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis, Latvian architect (born 1834)
April 7 – J. D. Sedding, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1838)
May 7 – John Hayward, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1807)
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