1892 in architecture

Events

• July 8 – Great Fire of 1892 destroys many buildings in St. John's, Newfoundland.
• October 21 – The World Columbian Exposition is dedicated in Chicago. Many of the world's best and brightest architects design what will be known as the "White City"; the planner for the exposition is Daniel Burnham.
• François Hennebique patents his system of reinforced concrete.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Heinävesi Church, the largest wooden church in Finland, designed by Josef Stenbäck and built in 1890–1891, is dedicated.
• Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Aldershot, England, designed by military engineers.
• Boardman Hall at Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller
• West front of All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, south London, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend.
• Masonic Temple (Chicago), designed by Burnham and Root.
• Regional parliament of Alsace-Lorraine, Strasbourg, designed by August Hartel and Skjold Neckelmann.
• Buenos Aires City Hall, designed by Juan Cagnoni.
• Palace of Justice Building, Rosario, Argentina, designed by Herbert Boyd Walker.
• Town hall of Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands.
• Courthouse and Jail, Esbjerg, Denmark, designed by Hans Christian Amberg.
• Government House, Bermuda, designed by William Cardy Hallet.
• Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch, Brooklyn, New York, designed by John H. Duncan.
• Toronto Board of Trade Building, designed by James & James.
• Natural History Building, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, designed by Nathan Clifford Ricker.
• Monopol Hotel, Breslau.
• Hotel Petersberg, Germany.
• Theater Unter den Linden, Berlin, designed by Fellner & Helmer.
• Provincial Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, designed by Jan Vladimír Hráský and Anton Hruby.
• Grillo-Theater, Essen, Germany.
• Teatro de Cristóbal Colón, Bogotá, Colombia, designed by Pietro Cantini.
• Cirkus (Stockholm).
• Madrid Atocha railway station, Spain, designed by Alberto Palacio with Gustave Eiffel.
• Ramses Station, Cairo, Egypt.
• Mills Building (San Francisco), designed by D. H. Burnham & Company.
• General Post Office, Leeds, England, designed by Henry Tanner.
• Youth's Companion Building, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Henry W. Hartwell and William Cummings Richardson.
• Page Belting Company Mills, Concord, New Hampshire.
• Templeton's Carpet Factory, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by William Leiper.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – César Daly.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Guillaume Tronchet.

Births

• March 4 – Rose Connor, American architect
• April 8 – Richard Neutra, Austrian American modernist architect
• June 19 – Ejnar Mindedal Rasmussen, Danish Neoclassical architect

Deaths

• January 27 – Philip Charles Hardwick, English architect
• December 23 – John Gibson, English architect