1891 in architecture
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The year 1891 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- October 7 â Uris Library at Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller, opens[1]
- Ludington Building â Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, earliest surviving steel-framed building in the city, and the earliest entirely terracotta-clad skyscraper (8 storeys).[2]
- Manhattan Building â Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, completed; world's earliest surviving steel-framed building to use a purely skeletal supporting structure.[3]
- Second Leiter Building â Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney.
- Monadnock Building â Chicago, tallest masonry load-bearing wall building when built.
- Sacred Heart Cathedral â Davenport, Iowa, designed by James J. Egan.
- St. Ambrose Cathedral â Des Moines, Iowa, designed by James J. Egan.
- San Sebastian Church (Manila).
- Wainwright Building â St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
- University of Pennsylvania Library â Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Furness.
- Several buildings constructed for the General Land Centennial Exhibition world fair â Prague, including the Art Nouveau Průmyslový Palace.
- Victoria Hall (Geneva), Switzerland, a concert hall designed by Marc Camoletti.
- Stadttheater Zürich, designed by Fellner & Helmer, opened.
- House of the Estates in Helsinki, Finland, built.
- General Post Office, Birmingham, England, designed by Henry Tanner.
- Palace Theatre, Manchester, England, designed by Alfred Darbyshire.
- Château de l'Ãle (Schloss Inselburg), Ostwald, Bas-Rhin, France (then Germany).
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Arthur Blomfield.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henri Eustache.
Births
- January 2 â Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, urban planner and engraver (died 1990)
- August 2 â Joseph Charles Fowell, Australian architect (died 1970)
- date unknown â Kanippayyur Shankaran Namboodiripad, Nambudiri Brahmin and Royal Architect (died 1981)
- date unknown â Giuseppe Psaila, Maltese Art Nouveau architect (died 1960)
Deaths
- January 11 â Baron Haussmann, French civic planner notable for the rebuilding of Paris in the 1860s (born 1809)[4]
- January 15 â John Wellborn Root, Chicago architect (born 1850; pneumonia)[5]
- January 22 â Miklós Ybl, Hungarian architect (born 1814)
- January 23 â Friedrich von Schmidt, Austrian architect working in Vienna (born 1825)
- March 19 â JÄnis FrÄ«drihs Baumanis, Latvian architect (born 1834)
- April 7 â J. D. Sedding, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1838)
- May 7 â John Hayward, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1807)