1904 in architecture
The year 1904 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- May – The Ford Motor Company approves construction of the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, a New England mill-style building in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- June – Construction work begins on the New York Hippodrome, designed by Frederic Thompson and Jay H. Morgan.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- January 8 – Blackstone Library, Chicago, designed by Solon Spencer Beman.
- Spring – Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, designed by Robert Reamer.
- April – Watts Gallery in Compton, Guildford, England, designed by Christopher Hatton Turnor.
- May 3 – Midtgulen Church, in Bremanger Municipality, Norway, designed by Lars Sølvberg, is consecrated by Bishop Johan Willoch Erichsen.
- September 4 – St. Regis Hotel in New York City, designed by Trowbridge & Livingston with interiors by Arnold Constable.
- September 17 – New St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow, designed by Tennant and Burke.
Buildings completed
- The Rhode Island State House in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by McKim, Mead & White, completed.
- Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, designed by Ernst von Ihne.
- Batumi Synagogue, Georgia, designed by Semyon Vulkovich.
- The Bergeret House in Nancy, France, by Lucien Weissenburger, with ironwork by Louis Majorelle, interior paintings by Victor Prouvé, stained glass by Jacques Gruber and woodwork by Eugène Vallin.
- The Villa des Roches, designed by Émile André as his own house, in the Parc de Saurupt in Nancy, France.
- Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Larkin Soap Company of Buffalo, New York.
- The Mayoralty of Baku, final work of Józef Gosławski.
- Hungarian Parliament Building on the Danube in Budapest, designed by Imre Steindl.
- Hammersmith Hospital, London, designed by Giles, Gough and Trollope.
- Rue Franklin Apartments, Paris, by Auguste Perret and his brother Gustave, an early example of an exposed reinforced concrete frame building.
- Hôtel Brion, Strasbourg, built by architect Auguste Brion for himself.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Auguste Choisy.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Ernest Michel Hébrard.
Births
- February 25 – Sydney Ancher, Australian architect
- March 3 – Donald McMorran, English neo-Georgian architect
- April 18 – Giuseppe Terragni, Italian Rationalist architect
- June 8 – Bruce Goff, American residential architect
- September 11 – Paul Thiry, American architect
- September 29 – Egon Eiermann, German architect
- November 25 – John Summerson, English architectural historian
- December 29 – Hans van der Laan, Dutch monk and architect
Deaths
- March – Peter Paul Pugin, English architect
- October 4 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty