1895 in architecture

The year 1895 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

• William Alexander Harvey, aged 20, is appointed architect for the newly laid-out model village of Bournville in Birmingham, England.

Buildings

Refuge Assurance Building, Manchester

• Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche), Berlin, Germany, by Franz Heinrich Schwechten, is consecrated.
• Holy Innocents Church, South Norwood, London, designed by George Frederick Bodley, is completed.
• Milwaukee City Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States is completed, giving it the title of tallest building in the world until 1899.
• Biltmore House on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, by Richard Morris Hunt is opened.
• Refuge Assurance Building in Manchester, England, by Alfred Waterhouse, is opened.
• Bishopsgate Institute in London, England, by Charles Harrison Townsend, is opened.
• New offices for The Glasgow Herald (now The Lighthouse) in Scotland, designed by John Keppie^[1] and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
• Pera Palace Hotel in Constantinople.
• D.T. Porter Building, the first steel frame skyscraper in Memphis, Tennessee, is completed. Designed by E.C. Jones.^[2]

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal – James Brooks.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: René Patouillard-Demoriane.

Births

• July 12 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect (died 1983)
• September 28 – Wallace Harrison, American architect (died 1981)
• December 17 – Wells Coates, Japanese-born Canadian architect working in England (died 1958)

Deaths

• April 23 – Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways (born 1808)
• June 23 – James Renwick, Jr., American architect (born 1818)

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