1894 in architecture
# 1894 in architecture

The year 1894 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Events

* In the United States, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
* Anatole de Baudot designs the church of Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre in Paris as the first to use a reinforced concrete frame.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings opened

* April 21 – Quatro de Setembro Theater, Teresina, Brazil.
* May 14 – Blackpool Tower in Blackpool, England, completed to a design by Maxwell and Tuke and opened to the public.
* June 30 – Tower Bridge in London, designed by Horace Jones (architect) and John Wolfe-Barry.
* July
   * Dalen Hotel in Norway, designed by Haldor Børve.
   * Palais Galliera in Paris, designed by Léon Ginain.
* October 16 – Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, designed by Fellner & Helmer.

### Buildings completed

* Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin, Germany.
* Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral, Montreal, Canada.
* Reformed Church, Dresden, designed by Harald Julius von Bosse (demolished 1963).
* Ringkirche, Wiesbaden, designed by Johannes Otzen.
* Sacred Heart Church (Kőszeg, Hungary), designed by Ludwig Schöne.
* St. Peter's Church, Jaffa.
* Colegio de Santa Maria de Jesús in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí.
* Columbus Hall (school and theater) in Orange, NJ designed by Jeremiah O'Rourke.
* Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce, Puerto Rico.
* Sisters of Charity Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
* Reichstag in Berlin, designed by Paul Wallot.
* Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, designed by Jean-Jacques Winders and Frans Van Dijk.
* Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, designed by Louis Sullivan.
* Hôtel Tassel (town house), Brussels, designed by Victor Horta.
* Hurlbut Memorial Gate, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
* Lululaund, a house for Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey, England, based on a design by Henry Hobson Richardson (d. 1886) (demolished 1939).
* Rebuilt Köln Hauptbahnhof railway station in Cologne, Germany, designed by E. Grüttefie (engineer) and Georg Frentzen (architect).
* Negril Lighthouse, Jamaica.
* De Arend, Coevorden (smock mill), Netherlands.

## Awards

* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frederic Leighton.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred-Henri Recoura.

## Births

* February 18 – Paul Williams, California-based architect (died 1980)

## Deaths

* April 11 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect and architectural theorist (born 1832)
* June 27 – Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)
* August 15 – Arthur Rotch, Boston-based architect (born 1850)
* September 16 – Eduard Mezger, Bavarian architect, painter, professor and high civil officer of the royal buildings administration (born 1807)
* December 16 – Alexandru Orăscu, Romanian Neoclassicist architect (born 1817)
