1874 in architecture

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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.

California State Capitol, Sacramento

Palais Garnier, Paris

Buildings and structures

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.[1]
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.[2]
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)[3]
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)[4]
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)

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References

"Grande Synagogue de Paris". Grande Synagogue de Paris. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2001). Lancashire: Manchester And The South-East. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-300-10583-4.
Harrison, Michael (2009). Ballard, Phillada (ed.). Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects. Wetherby: Oblong for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society. ISBN 978-0-9556576-2-7.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baltard, Louis Pierre". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Victor is discussed in the second half of this article on his father.

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[1] "Grande Synagogue de Paris". Grande Synagogue de Paris. Retrieved 2014-03-04.

[2] Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2001). Lancashire: Manchester And The South-East. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-300-10583-4.

[3] Harrison, Michael (2009). Ballard, Phillada (ed.). Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects. Wetherby: Oblong for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society. ISBN 978-0-9556576-2-7.

[4] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baltard, Louis Pierre". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Victor is discussed in the second half of this article on his father.