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.^[1]
• June – Construction work begins on the
  Jay H. Morgan (demolished 1939).^[2]

• 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.
• Bremanger Municipality, Norway, designed by Lars Sølvberg, is consecrated by Bishop Johan Willoch Erichsen.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• The
  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
  Józef Gosławski
  .
• Hungarian Parliament Building (Országház) on the Danube in Budapest, designed by Imre Steindl (died 1902).
• 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.^[5]
• 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 (died 1979)
• March 3 – Donald McMorran, English neo-Georgian architect (died 1965)
• April 18 – Giuseppe Terragni, Italian Rationalist architect (died 1943)
• June 8 – Bruce Goff, American residential architect (died 1982)^[6]
• September 11 – Paul Thiry, American architect (died 1993)
• September 29 – Egon Eiermann, German architect (died 1970)
• November 25 – John Summerson, English architectural historian (died 1992)
• December 29 – Hans van der Laan, Dutch monk and architect (died 1991)

Deaths

• March – Peter Paul Pugin, English architect (born 1851)
• Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)^[7]