1890 in architecture explained

The year 1890 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• February 3 – Ypsilanti Water Tower, Ypsilanti, Michigan, designed by William R. Coats, is completed.^[1]
• March 4 – The Forth Bridge across the Firth of Forth from South Queensferry to North Queensferry in Scotland, designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, is opened.^[2]
• May 13 - Parish church of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London, designed by J. D. Sedding, is consecrated.^[3]
• May 30 – The James A. Garfield Memorial at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by George W. Keller, is dedicated.^[4]
• September 29 – St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, Westminster, designed by Edward Goldie, is opened.
• The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by John Eisenmann.^[5]
• The Demarest Building, a commercial building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, is completed.^[6]
• Edwin Lutyens' first commission, Crooksbury, a country house near Farnham, England, is completed.
• The Second Madison Square Garden, designed by Stanford White, is completed on the site of the first Madison Square Garden.^[7]

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Gibson.^[8]
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Emmanuel Pontremoli.^[9]

Births

• February 9 – J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect (died 1963)^[10]
• April 17 – Carl Krayl, German architect (died 1947)^[11]
• March 20 – Owen Williams, English structural engineer (died 1969)^[12]
• May 4 – Ingrid Wallberg, Swedish architect (died 1965)^[13]
• July 31 – Louis de Soissons, Canadian-born English architect (died 1962)^[14]
• November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian architect and designer (died 1941)^[15]
• Philip Hepworth, English architect (died 1963)^[16]

Deaths

• October 20 – Alfred B. Mullett, American architect (born 1834)^[17]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority . www.ycua.org . 8 August 2018.
2. Book: Mitton . G. E. . Black's Guide to Scotland . 1905 . Рипол Классик . 9785880702190 . 79 . en.
3. Web site: Holy Trinity . www.buildingconservation.com . 8 August 2018.
4. Web site: Postcards of Cleveland . Cleveland State University Library . 8 August 2018 . 9 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180809025507/http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm/search/collection/postcards/searchterm/Garfield%20Monument/field/subjec/mode/all/conn/and/order/title2/ad/asc/cosuppress/ . dead .
5. Book: Miller . Carol Poh . Wheeler . Robert Anthony . Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796-1996 . 1997 . Indiana University Press . 0253211476 . 96 . en.
6. Web site: Gray . Christopher . Echoes of Carnegie Hall on Fifth Avenue . nytimes . 8 August 2018 . en.
7. Web site: Mad. Sq. History: Madison Square Garden . Madison Square Park . Madison Square Park Conservancy . 31 October 2018.
8. Web site: John Gibson . www.scottisharchitects.org.uk . 8 August 2018.
9. Book: Cassanelli . Roberto . Ruins of Ancient Rome: The Drawings of French Architects who Won the Prix de Rome, 1786-1924 . 2002 . Getty Publications . 9780892366804 . 19 . en.
10. Web site: Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890-1963) . data.bnf.fr . 8 August 2018 . en.
11. Web site: Warnat . Grit . Der Baukünstler von Magdeburg . m.volksstimme.de . 8 August 2018 . de.
12. Williams, Sir (Evan) Owen (1890–1969), civil engineer and architect . 2004 . 8 August 2018 . en . 10.1093/ref:odnb/51931 .
13. Web site: Brügge. Anne. Ingrid Wallberg. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Swedish. 2021-06-03. 2018-03-08. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190731172438/https://skbl.se/sv/artikel/IngridWallberg . 2019-07-31 .
14. Web site: Louis de Soissons . www.royalacademy.org.uk . 8 August 2018.
15. Web site: Else Lissitzky . www.guggenheim.org . 8 August 2018.
16. Book: Miller . Mervyn . English Garden Cities: An introduction . 2015 . Historic England . 9781848023208 . 56 .
17. Web site: Albert B. Mullett. 8 August 2018.