1883 in architecture

Buildings , Chicago , England • March 10 – The Ames Free Library opens to the public "without fanfare and ceremony." Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. • May 1 – The Examination Schools of the University of Oxford, designed by Thomas G. Jackson, are formally opened. • May 24 – Brooklyn Bridge, designed by John A. Roebling, is completed. • 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. • Albany City Hall in Albany, New York, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in 'Richardsonian Romanesque' style, is completed. • 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. • Hotel Windsor (Melbourne), Australia, designed by Charles Webb, is completed. • Cane Hill Hospital in Coulsdon, London, is completed. • Coney Hill Hospital (Gloucestershire County Asylum) in Gloucester, England, designed by John Giles and Edward Gough, is partially completed. • Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England, designed by Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, is opened for guests. • 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. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Francis Penrose. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Gaston Redon. ==Births==

• January 8 – Robert Atkinson, English Art Deco architect (died 1952) • February 15 – Richard Konwiarz, German architect (died 1960) • May 18 – Walter Gropius, German modernist architect (died 1969) • May 28 – Clough Williams-Ellis, British architect (died 1978) • June 25 – Paul Bartholomew, American architect (died 1973) • August 23 – Alker Tripp, English town planner (died 1954) • August 30 – Theo van Doesburg, Dutch De Stijl architect (died 1931) • December 19 – Barry Byrne, American Prairie School architect (died 1967) ==Deaths==

• June 3 – Emilio De Fabris, Italian architect (born 1808) • October 22 – John Henry Chamberlain, English Gothic Revival architect working in Birmingham (born 1831) ==References==