1891 in architecture
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The year 1891 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings
- Ludington Building - Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, earliest surviving steel-framed building in the city, and the earliest entirely terracotta-clad skyscraper (8 storeys).[1]
- Manhattan Building - Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, completed; world's earliest surviving steel-framed building to use a purely skeletal supporting structure.[2]
- Second Leiter Building - Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney.
- Monadnock Building - Chicago, tallest masonry load-bearing wall building when built.
- Sacred Heart Cathedral - Davenport, Iowa, designed by James J. Egan.
- St. Ambrose Cathedral - Des Moines, Iowa, designed by James J. Egan.
- Wainwright Building - St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
- University of Pennsylvania Library - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Furness.
- Several buildings constructed for the General Land Centennial Exhibition world fair - 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.
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Arthur Blomfield.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henri Eustache.
Births
- January 2 - Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, urban planner and engraver (died 1990)
- August 2 - Joseph Charles Fowell, Australian architect (died 1970)
Deaths
- January 11 - Baron Haussmann, civic planner notable for the rebuilding of Paris in the 1860s (born 1809)[3]
- January 15 - John Wellborn Root, Chicago architect (born 1850; pneumonia)[4]
- January 22 - Miklós Ybl, Hungarian architect (born 1814)
- April 7 - J. D. Sedding, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1838)
- May 7 - John Hayward, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1807)
References
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- ↑ Manhattan Building, Chicago. Emporis Buildings (URL accessed 9 July 2006).Manhattan Building, 431 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL. American Memory from the Library of Congress (URL accessed 9 July 2006).
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