1874 in architecture

none 1874 architecture 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. thumb|California State Capitol, Sacramento thumb|Palais Garnier, Paris Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1874 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.http://www.lavictoire.org/ Grande Synagogue de Paris Grande Synagogue de Paris 2014-03-04 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.Hartwell, Clare Hyde, Matthew Pevsner, Nikolaus 2001 Lancashire: Manchester And The South-East Pevsner Architectural Guides New Haven; London Yale University Press 379 978-0-300-10583-4 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)Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects Harrison, Michael 2009 Ballard, Phillada Wetherby Oblong for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society 978-0-9556576-2-7 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)Baltard, Louis Pierre Baltard, Louis Pierre s.v. Victor Baltard 3 286 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 Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture