1904 in architecture

, in Detroit, USA • May – The Ford Motor Company approves construction of the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, a New England mill-style building in Detroit, Michigan, USA. • June – Construction work begins on the New York Hippodrome, designed by Frederic Thompson and Jay H. Morgan (demolished 1939). ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened • 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. • May 3 – Midtgulen Church, in Bremanger Municipality, Norway, designed by Lars Sølvberg, is consecrated by Bishop Johan Willoch Erichsen. • September 4 – 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 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA • 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. • The Bergeret House in Nancy, France, by Lucien Weissenburger, with ironwork by Louis Majorelle, interior paintings by Victor Prouvé, stained glass by 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 Mayoralty of Baku, final work of 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. • 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) • 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) • October 4 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (born 1834) ==References==