1887 in architecture

Overview of the events of 1887 in architecture

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The year 1887 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

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* Construction work begins on
* Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, Rosario, Argentina.
* Provinciaal Hof, Bruges, Flanders, designed by Louis Delacenserie and René Buyck.
* Ponce de León Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida, designed by Carrère and Hastings.

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1887

### Buildings opened

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Basilica of St. Nicholas, Amsterdam St Paul's Church, Aarhus

* March 29 – Peebles Old Parish Church, Scotland, designed by William Young (dedicated).
* April 23 – Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași, Romania, completed by Alexandru Orăscu (dedicated).
* June 20 – Victoria Terminus of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway in Bombay, designed by Frederick William Stevens.[1]
* December 1 – Raffles Hotel, Singapore.

### Buildings completed

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* Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral, designed by Pugin & Pugin.
* New façade of Florence Cathedral, designed by Emilio De Fabris (died 1883).
* Basilica of St. Nicholas, Amsterdam, designed by Adrianus Bleijs.
* St Paul's Church, Aarhus, designed by Vilhelm Theodor Walther.
* Cluj-Napoca Neolog Synagogue, Romania, designed by engineer Izidor Hegner.
* Eldridge Street Synagogue, New York City, designed by Peter and Francis William Herter.
* Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo, designed by Josip Vancaš.
* Rebuilt Gare Saint-Lazare terminus of Chemins de fer de l'Ouest in Paris, designed by Juste Lisch.
* Clock tower of Rochdale Town Hall in England, designed by Alfred Waterhouse.

## Awards

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* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ewan Christian.

## Publications

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* MacGibbon and Ross begin publication of The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century.
* G. A. Wayss publishes Das System Monier-Eisengerippe mit Cementumhüllung-in seiner Anwendung auf das gesammte Bauwesen in Berlin, one of the first books on reinforced concrete (using Joseph Monier's system).

## Births

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* March 21 – Erich Mendelsohn, German-Jewish Expressionist architect (died 1953)[2]
* May 10 – Herbert James Rowse, English architect noted for work in Liverpool (died 1963)
* May 31 – Philip Tilden, English domestic architect (died 1956)
* June 15 – Oliver Hill, English architect (died 1968)
* August 30 – Eric Francis, British architect and painter (died 1976)
* October 6 – Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and pioneer of modern architecture (died 1965)

Horace Jones

## Deaths

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* April 13 – David Stirling, Scottish-born Canadian architect (born 1822)[3]
* May 8 – Thomas Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1818)
* May 21 – Sir Horace Jones, English architect (born 1819)
* August 16 – Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (born 1837)

## References

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1. ^ "Advisory Body Evaluation: Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (India)" (PDF). UNESCO – World heritage – documents associated with listing. UNESCO. 2004. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
2. ^ "Erich Mendelsohn". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
3. ^ "1887 in architecture". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.

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