1915 in architecture
# 1915 in architecture

The year 1915 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings opened

* April – The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition, designed by Jan Letzel, is opened; it becomes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
* April 21 – Theatre Circo, Braga, Portugal.
* November 6 – Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Pennsylvania, designed by Abraham Burton Cohen.

### Buildings completed

* Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay, designed by George Wittet.
* Kumarakottam Temple, Kanchipuram, India rebuilt.
* Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Yosemite Village, California.
* Well Hall Estate for arsenal workers at Woolwich in south-east London, designed by Frank Baines.

## Awards

* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Darling.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.

## Births

* April 22 – Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (died 2004)
* May 8 – Laurent Chappis, French architect and town planner (died 2013)
* October 4 – Beverly Loraine Greene, African American architect (died 1957)
* December 12 – Tobias Faber, Danish architect and academic (died 2010)
* December 31 – George Pace, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1975)

## Deaths

* February 17 – George Franklin Barber, American residential architect (born 1854)
* April 17 – Philip Webb, English architect (born 1831)
* May 28 – Robert Chisholm, British "Indo-Saracenic" architect (born 1840)
* June 25 – John James Clark, Australian architect (born 1838)
* July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (born 1846)
