1904 in architecture
# 1904 in architecture

The year 1904 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* May – The Ford Motor Company approves construction of the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, a New England mill-style building in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
* June – Construction work begins on the New York Hippodrome, designed by Frederic Thompson and Jay H. Morgan (demolished 1939).

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings opened

* January 8 – Blackstone Library, Chicago, designed by Solon Spencer Beman.
* Spring – Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, designed by Robert Reamer.
* April – Watts Gallery in Compton, Guildford, England, designed by Christopher Hatton Turnor.
* May 3 – Midtgulen Church, in Bremanger Municipality, Norway, designed by Lars Sølvberg, is consecrated by Bishop Johan Willoch Erichsen.
* September 4 – St. Regis Hotel in New York City, designed by Trowbridge & Livingston with interiors by Arnold Constable.
* September 17 – New St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow, designed by Tennant and Burke.

### Buildings completed

* The Rhode Island State House in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by McKim, Mead & White, completed.
* Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, designed by Ernst von Ihne.
* Batumi Synagogue, Georgia, designed by Semyon Vulkovich.
* The Bergeret House in Nancy, France, by Lucien Weissenburger, with ironwork by Louis Majorelle, interior paintings by Victor Prouvé, stained glass by Jacques Gruber and woodwork by Eugène Vallin.
* The Villa des Roches, designed by Émile André as his own house, in the Parc de Saurupt in Nancy, France.
* Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Larkin Soap Company of Buffalo, New York.
* The Mayoralty of Baku, final work of Józef Gosławski.
* Hungarian Parliament Building (Országház) on the Danube in Budapest, designed by Imre Steindl (died 1902).
* Hammersmith Hospital, London, designed by Giles, Gough and Trollope.
* Rue Franklin Apartments, Paris, by Auguste Perret and his brother Gustave, an early example of an exposed reinforced concrete frame building.
* Hôtel Brion, Strasbourg, built by architect Auguste Brion for himself.

## Awards

* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Auguste Choisy.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Ernest Michel Hébrard.

## Births

* February 25 – Sydney Ancher, Australian architect (died 1979)
* March 3 – Donald McMorran, English neo-Georgian architect (died 1965)
* April 18 – Giuseppe Terragni, Italian Rationalist architect (died 1943)
* June 8 – Bruce Goff, American residential architect (died 1982)
* September 11 – Paul Thiry, American architect (died 1993)
* September 29 – Egon Eiermann, German architect (died 1970)
* November 25 – John Summerson, English architectural historian (died 1992)
* December 29 – Hans van der Laan, Dutch monk and architect (died 1991)

## Deaths

* March – Peter Paul Pugin, English architect (born 1851)
* October 4 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)
