- 1880 in architecture
The year 1880 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Buildings
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Casa Vicens inBarcelona , designed byAntoni Gaudi is completed.
* TheNatural History Museum inLondon , designed byAlfred Waterhouse andFrancis Fowke is completed.
*Cologne Cathedral inCologne is completed after 632 years.
*Rajabai Clock Tower inSouth Mumbai ,India is opened.
*Manchester Central railway station inManchester ,England is completed.
*Royal Exhibition Building ,Melbourne is completed.Awards
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Royal Gold Medal -John Loughborough Pearson .
*Grand Prix de Rome , architecture: Louis Girault.Births
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April 9 -Jan Letzel (died 1925)
*May 19 -Albert Richardson - English architect, writer, and Professor of Architecture (died 1694)
*November 9 -Giles Gilbert Scott (died 1960)Deaths
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January 27 -Edward Middleton Barry (born 1830)
*May 25 - Richard Lane (born 1795)
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