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Overview of the events of 1883 in architecture
The year 1883 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Home Insurance Building, Chicago
Waddesdon Manor, England
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March 10 – The
Ames Free Library opens to the public "without fanfare and ceremony."
[1] Designed by
Henry Hobson Richardson.
- May 1 – The
Examination Schools of the
University of Oxford, designed by
Thomas G. Jackson, are formally opened.
[2]
- May 24 –
Brooklyn Bridge, designed by
John A. Roebling, is completed.
[3]
- May 26 –
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in
Moscow, designed by
Konstantin Thon, is dedicated.
- August 29 –
Dunfermline Carnegie Library opened, the first of over 2,500 Carnegie Libraries funded by
Andrew Carnegie.
[4]
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Albany City Hall in Albany, New York, designed by
Henry Hobson Richardson in '
Richardsonian Romanesque' style, is completed.
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Vienna City Hall (Rathaus), designed by
Friedrich von Schmidt in
Gothic Revival style, is completed.
- The
Home Insurance Building in
Chicago designed by
William LeBaron Jenney (demolished 1931).
- The
Kuhns Building in
Dayton, Ohio, is constructed.
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Hotel Windsor (Melbourne), Australia, designed by
Charles Webb, is completed.
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Cane Hill Hospital in
Coulsdon, London, is completed.
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Coney Hill Hospital (Gloucestershire County Asylum) in
Gloucester, England, designed by
John Giles and Edward Gough, is partially completed.
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Waddesdon Manor in
Buckinghamshire, England, designed by
Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, is opened for guests.
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Billings Memorial Library at the
University of Vermont in
Burlington, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, is built.
- New Church,
Anerley, London, designed by W. J. E. Henley of the Concrete Building Company, completed.
[5]
Awards
Births
Walter Gropius
Deaths
References
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"A Centennial History of Ames Free Library of Easton, Inc. 1883-1983". Ames Free Library. Ames Free Library. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
Saturday, March 10, 1883 - opening day at Ames Free Library
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^ Whyte, William (2006).
Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, and Style 1835–1924. Clarendon Press. p. 53 & 56.
ISBN
978-0-19-929658-3.
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^ Edwards, Maurice (2006).
How Music Grew in Brooklyn: A Biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. Scarecrow Press. p. 20.
ISBN
978-0-8108-5666-0.
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"Dunfermline, Abbot Street, Carnegie Central Library | Canmore". canmore.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
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"The Concrete Church". The Norwood Society. 1994. Retrieved 2020-07-14.