1890 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• February 3 – Ypsilanti Water Tower, Ypsilanti, Michigan, designed by William R. Coats, is completed.
• 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.
• May 13 - Parish church of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London, designed by J. D. Sedding, is consecrated.
• May 30 – The James A. Garfield Memorial at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by George W. Keller, is dedicated.
• 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.
• The Demarest Building, a commercial building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, is completed.
• 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.

  Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Gibson.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Emmanuel Pontremoli.

  Births

• February 9 – J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect
• April 17 – Carl Krayl, German architect
• March 20 – Owen Williams, English structural engineer
• July 31 – Louis de Soissons, Canadian-born English architect
• November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian architect and designer
• Philip Hepworth, English architect

  Deaths

• October 20 – Alfred B. Mullett, American architect