1874 in architecture

Events

• George Devey begins to remodel Ascott House in England.
• Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, new York, laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is completed.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• California State Capitol in Sacramento, California, USA.
• Eads Bridge at St. Louis, USA, designed by James B. Eads.
• Grand Synagogue of Paris, France, designed by Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe.
• Palais Garnier, Paris, France, designed by Charles Garnier.
• St. Nicholas' Church, Hamburg, Germany, designed by George Gilbert Scott.
• Wahnfried, Richard Wagner's villa in Bayreuth, Germany.
• The Ancoats Hospital, an enlargement of the current building, in Manchester, designed by Lewis and Crawcroft, opens.
• Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Sarajevo, designed by Andrey Damyanov

  Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – George Edmund Street.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Benoît Édouard Loviot.

  Births

• February 12 – Auguste Perret, French architect, pioneer of reinforced concrete
• March 10 – Karl Lindahl, Finnish-Swedish architect
• April 11 – William Alexander Harvey, English architect of Bournville
• April 24 – John Russell Pope, American architect
• October 21 – Edwin Cooper, English architect

  Deaths

• January 13 – Victor Baltard, French architect
• April 13 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect
• April 19 – Owen Jones, Anglo-Welsh architect
• August 3 – Carl Tietz, German architect working in Vienna
• September 3 – John Rennie the Younger, English civil engineer