1904 in architecture explained

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.^[1]
• June – Construction work begins on the New York Hippodrome, designed by Frederic Thompson and Jay H. Morgan (demolished 1939).^[2]

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.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• 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)^[6]
• 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)^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ford Piquette Avenue Plant . Michigan State Housing Development Authority . September 2, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120528153612/http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/hso/sites/68516.htm . May 28, 2012 .
2. Book: Morrison . William . Broadway Theatres: History and Architecture. Dover Books on Architecture . 1999 . . Mineola, New York. 0-486-40244-4 . 48–50.
3. Web site: Midtgulen Church. 2000. Aaraas. Margrethe. Venden. Sigurd. www.sffarkiv.no – Sogn og Fjordane Arkiv. 2008-09-27. no. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724061141/http://www.sffarkiv.no/sffbasar/default.asp?p=result&db=dbatlas_leks&spraak_id=2&ptype=single&art_id=14768. 2011-07-24.
4. http://batumi.ge/en/?page=show&sec=75 Batumi: sights
5. Web site: Rue Franklin Apartments. GreatBuildings. 2012-05-29.
6. Book: Peter. Eisenman. Giuseppe. Terragni. Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques. New York. The Monacelli Press. 2003.
7. Belot, Robert; Bermond, Daniel (2004). Bartholdi.