title: 1904 in architecture
text: # 1904 in architecture
  
  The year 1904 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * 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
  
  * 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)
  