1884 in architecture

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The year 1884 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings

Washington Monument

• Antoni Gaudí begins work on the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona.
• Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., designed by Robert Mills, is completed.
• Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest, designed by Miklós Ybl, is opened.
• Garabit viaduct in France, engineered by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin, is completed.
• The Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, is completed.
• Cornerstone of Statue of Liberty laid in New York Harbor.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - William Butterfield.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Hector d'Espouy.

Births

• February 6 - Vlastislav Hofman, Czech artist and Cubist-influenced architect (died 1964)
• July 6 - Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch Modernist architect (died 1974)
• August 27 - Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan soldier, architect and politician (died 1948)
• September 26 - Antonio Barluzzi, Italian Franciscan monk and architect, known as the "Architect of the Holy Land" (died 1960)

Deaths

• February 10 - Richard Shackleton Pope, English architect working in Bristol (born 1793)
• March 26 - Edward Milner, English landscape architect (born 1819)
• July 27 - Frigyes Feszl, Hungarian architect, a significant figure in the romantic movement (born 1821)
• August 3 - Paul Abadie, French architect and building restorer (born 1812)
• date unknown - Eugenius Birch, English naval architect, engineer and noted pier builder (born 1818)