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1894 in architecture
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1894 architecture
The year 1894 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
In the United States, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
Anatole de Baudot designs the church of Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre in Paris as the first to use a reinforced concrete frame.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1894
Buildings opened
thumb|The Tower Bridge in London
April 21 – Quatro de Setembro Theater, Teresina, Brazil.
May 14 – Blackpool Tower in Blackpool, England, completed to a design by Maxwell and Tuke and opened to the public.
June 30 – Tower Bridge in London, designed by Horace Jones (architect) and John Wolfe-Barry.
July
Dalen Hotel in Norway, designed by Haldor Børve.Virtual Tourist: Dalen Travel Guide https://web.archive.org/web/20130614224838/http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Norway/Telemark/Dalen-221702/TravelGuide-Dalen.html 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
Palais Galliera in Paris, designed by Léon Ginain.
October 16 – Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, designed by Fellner & Helmer.
Buildings completed
thumb|right|200px|Reichstag
thumb|200px|Hôtel Tassel, pioneering Art Nouveau
Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin, Germany.
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral, Montreal, Canada.
Reformed Church, Dresden, designed by Harald Julius von Bosse (demolished 1963).
Ringkirche, Wiesbaden, designed by Johannes Otzen.
Sacred Heart Church (Kőszeg, Hungary), designed by Ludwig Schöne.
St. Peter's Church, Jaffa.http://www.tourism.gov.il/Tourism_Eng/Tourist+Information/Christian+Themes/Details/St.+Peters+Church-+jaffa.htm St. Peter's Church Israel Ministry of Tourism 2009-01-06
Colegio de Santa Maria de Jesús in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí.
Columbus Hall (school and theater) in Orange, NJ designed by Jeremiah O'Rourke.
Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Sisters of Charity Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
Reichstag in Berlin, designed by Paul Wallot.
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, designed by Jean-Jacques Winders and Frans Van Dijk.
Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, designed by Louis Sullivan.
Hôtel Tassel (town house), Brussels, designed by Victor Horta.
Hurlbut Memorial Gate, Detroit, Michigan, USA.Laurie J. Marzejka (June 14, 2000)."Detroit's Water Works Park a gateway to the past," https://archive.today/20130121114824/http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=207 2013-01-21 . Michigan History, The Detroit News. Retrieved on March 28, 2009.
Lululaund, a house for Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey, England, based on a design by Henry Hobson Richardson (d. 1886) (demolished 1939).
Rebuilt Köln Hauptbahnhof railway station in Cologne, Germany, designed by E. Grüttefie (engineer) and Georg Frentzen (architect).
Negril Lighthouse, Jamaica.Negril Point Lighthouse https://web.archive.org/web/20110629114750/http://www.jnht.com/heritage_site.php?id=99 2011-06-29 , Jamaica National Heritage Trust, 2005.
De Arend, Coevorden (smock mill), Netherlands.http://www.molens.nl/dbase/molen.php?&molenid=319 Technische gegevens De Hollandsche Molen Dutch 12 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110724162308/http://www.molens.nl/dbase/molen.php?&molenid=319 2011-07-24 dead (Click on "Technische gegevens" to view)
Awards
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frederic Leighton.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred-Henri Recoura.
Births
February 18 – Paul Williams, California-based architect (died 1980)
Deaths
April 11 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect and architectural theorist (born 1832)
June 27 – Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)
August 15 – Arthur Rotch, Boston-based architect (born 1850)
September 16 – Eduard Mezger, Bavarian architect, painter, professor and high civil officer of the royal buildings administration (born 1807)
December 16 – Alexandru Orăscu, Romanian Neoclassicist architect (born 1817)
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