1890 in architecture

Buildings • February 3 – Ypsilanti Water Tower, Ypsilanti, Michigan, designed by William R. Coats, is completed. • March 4 – The Forth Bridge across the Firth of Forth from South Queensferry to North Queensferry in Scotland, designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, is opened. • May 13 - Parish church of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London, designed by J. D. Sedding, is consecrated. • May 30 – The James A. Garfield Memorial at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by George W. Keller, is dedicated. • September 29 – St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, Westminster, designed by Edward Goldie, is opened. • The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by John Eisenmann. • The Demarest Building, a commercial building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, is completed. • Edwin Lutyens' first commission, Crooksbury, a country house near Farnham, England, is completed. • The Second Madison Square Garden, designed by Stanford White, is completed on the site of the first Madison Square Garden. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Gibson. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Emmanuel Pontremoli. ==Births==

• February 9 – J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect (died 1963) • April 17 – Carl Krayl, German architect (died 1947) • March 20 – Owen Williams, English structural engineer (died 1969) • May 4 – Ingrid Wallberg, Swedish architect (died 1965) • July 31 – Louis de Soissons, Canadian-born English architect (died 1962) • November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian architect and designer (died 1941) • Philip Hepworth, English architect (died 1963) ==Deaths==

• October 20 – Alfred B. Mullett, American architect (born 1834) ==References==