1884 in architecture

Buildings • Antoni Gaudí becomes architect for the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona. • Gustav Adolf Church, Liverpool, England, designed by W. D. Caröe, is completed. • Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., designed by Robert Mills, is completed. • Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest, designed by Miklós Ybl, is opened. • Budapest Keleti railway station, designed by Gyula Rochlitz and János Feketeházy, is completed. • Garabit viaduct in France, engineered by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin, is completed. • The Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, is completed. • Cornerstone of Statue of Liberty laid in New York Harbor. ==Publications==

• Frederic Growse – Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Butterfield. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Hector d'Espouy. ==Births==

• February 6 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech artist and Cubist-influenced architect (died 1964) • February 12 – Norman Jewson, English Arts and Crafts architect (died 1975) • July 6 – Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch Modernist architect (died 1974) • August 27 – Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan soldier, architect and politician (died 1948) • September 26 – Antonio Barluzzi, Italian Franciscan friar and architect, known as the "Architect of the Holy Land" (died 1960) • November 24 – Michel de Klerk, Dutch Amsterdam School architect (died 1923) • Ernest George Trobridge, British architect (died 1942) ==Deaths==

• January 8 – Eugenius Birch, English naval architect, engineer and noted pier builder (born 1818) • February 10 – Richard Shackleton Pope, English architect working in Bristol (born 1793) • March 26 – Edward Milner, English landscape architect (born 1819) • July 27 – Frigyes Feszl, Hungarian architect, a significant figure in the romantic movement (born 1821) • August 3 – Paul Abadie, French architect and building restorer (born 1812) • October 19 – Major Rohde Hawkins, English school and church architect (born 1821) ==References==