1895 in architecture

• William Alexander Harvey, aged 20, is appointed architect for the newly laid-out model village of Bournville in Birmingham, England. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings , Manchester • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche), Berlin, Germany, by Franz Heinrich Schwechten, is consecrated. • Holy Innocents Church, South Norwood, London, designed by George Frederick Bodley, is completed. • Milwaukee City Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States is completed, giving it the title of tallest building in the world until 1899. • Biltmore House on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, by Richard Morris Hunt is opened. • Refuge Assurance Building in Manchester, England, by Alfred Waterhouse, is opened. • Bishopsgate Institute in London, England, by Charles Harrison Townsend, is opened. • New offices for The Glasgow Herald (now The Lighthouse) in Scotland, designed by John Keppie and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. • Pera Palace Hotel in Constantinople. • D.T. Porter Building, the first steel frame skyscraper in Memphis, Tennessee, is completed. Designed by E.C. Jones. • The Breakers, the largest of the Gilded Age mansions in Newport, Rhode Island is completed. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – James Brooks. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: René Patouillard-Demoriane. ==Births==

• July 12 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect (died 1983) • September 28 – Wallace Harrison, American architect (died 1981) • December 17 – Wells Coates, Japanese-born Canadian architect working in England (died 1958) ==Deaths==

• April 23 – Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways (born 1808) • June 23 – James Renwick Jr., American architect (born 1818) ==References==