1885 in architecture

The year 1885 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• May – The original wooden structures of Hobson Block, West Union, Iowa, USA, are destroyed by fire, leading to construction of the present building.
• W. D. Caröe is appointed architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.^[1]
• Construction of the Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi, begins; it will not be completed until 1925.

 

Holloway Sanatorium

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• July 13 – New building for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, designed by Pierre Cuypers.^[2]
• November 30 – London Pavilion variety theatre, designed by Robert Worley and James Ebenezer Saunders.
• December 27 – Church of St. Peter, Leipzig, designed by August Hartel and Constantin Lipsius.
• Castle Hotel, Conwy, Wales.^[3]
• Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Busovača, Bosnia-Herzegovina.^[4]
• Vestermarie Church, Bornholm, Denmark.
• Metropole Hotel, London, designed by Francis Fowler and James Ebenezer Saunders.

Buildings completed

 

The Academy of Athens, Greece

• Autumn – The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, designed by William Le Baron Jenney. With ten floors and a fireproof weight-bearing metal frame, it is regarded as the first skyscraper.^[5]
• Academy of Athens (Greece), designed by Theophil Hansen in 1859.
• Holloway Sanatorium near Virginia Water in England, designed by William Henry Crossland.
• Sway Tower in Hampshire, England, designed by Andrew Peterson using concrete made with Portland cement. It remains the world's tallest non-reinforced concrete structure.^[6][7]
• House for Kate Greenaway, Frognal, London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
• Elmside (house), Grange Road, Cambridge, England, designed by Edward Prior.
• Rebuilt Framingham Railroad Station in Framingham, Massachusetts, designed by H. H. Richardson.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Heinrich Schliemann.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: François Paul André.

Births

• February 23 – Yoshikazu Uchida, Japanese architect and structural engineer (died 1972)
• July 13 – Adolf Behne, German art historian, architectural writer and leader of the Avant Garde movement (died 1948)
• July 15 – Josef Frank, Austrian-born architect and designer (died 1967)
• July 29 – Sigurd Lewerentz, Swedish architect and furniture designer (died 1975)
• August 13 – Charles Howard Crane, American architect (died 1952)
• August 30 – Paul Gösch, German Expressionist artist, architect, lithographer and designer (died 1940)^[8][9]
• September 22 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish "Nordic Classicist" architect (died 1940)
• December 5 – Ernest Cormier, Canadian engineer and architect (died 1980)
• December 17 – Wells Coates, Canadian architect, designer and writer (died 1958)
• December 28 – Vladimir Tatlin, Russian painter and architect (died 1953)^[10]

Deaths

• February 1 – Henri Dupuy de Lôme, French naval architect (born 1816)
• March 9 – Matthew Ellison Hadfield, English Victorian Gothic architect (born 1812)
• May 22 – Théodore Ballu, French architect of public buildings (born 1817)
• May 28 – Horace King, US architect, engineer, and bridge builder.^[11]
• June 14 – William Tinsley, US-based Irish architect (born 1804)
• August 1 – Thomas Leverton Donaldson, British architect, co-founder and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects^[12]
• August 24 – Eduard Riedel, German architect and Bavarian government building officer (born 1813)
• September 2 – Giuseppe Bonavia, Maltese architect (born 1821)
• November 16 – Frederick Ernst Ruffini, US architect (born 1851)

References

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3. Cadw, "Castle Hotel (3301)", National Historic Assets of Wales, retrieved 11 April 2019
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6. James, J. (1997). All about Sway Tower. Lymington: Lymington Museum Trust.
7. Trout, Edwin (October 2002). "Sway Tower: an early example of high-rise concrete construction". Concrete: 64–5.
8. Pehnt, Wolfgang (1973). Expressionist Architecture. Westport, CT: Praeger.
9. Selz, Peter (1957). German Expressionist Painting. Berkeley: University of California Press.
10. Lynton, Norbert (2009). Tatlin's Tower: Monument to Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-300-11130-9.
11. Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, Horace King Historical Marker Archived 2008-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved November 3, 2007.
12. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 10 Feb 2014.[1]