1874 in architecture

Overview of the events of 1874 in architecture

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The year 1874 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

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* 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.

California State Capitol, Sacramento Palais Garnier, Paris

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1874

### Buildings completed

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* 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

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* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – George Edmund Street.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Benoît Édouard Loviot.

## Births

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* 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

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* 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)
* November 14 – Robert William Billings, British Gothic Revival architectural draughtsman and architect (born 1812)

## References

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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 s.v. Victor Baltard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 286.

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