1890 in architecture

{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1890}}

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• February 3 – Ypsilanti Water Tower, Ypsilanti, Michigan, designed by William R. Coats, is completed.{{cite web |title=Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority |url=http://www.ycua.org/stonetower.htm |website=www.ycua.org |access-date=8 August 2018}}
• 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.{{cite book |last1=Mitton |first1=G. E. |title=Black's Guide to Scotland |date=1905 |publisher=Рипол Классик |isbn=9785880702190 |page=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-4EQAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|language=en}}
• May 13 - Parish church of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London, designed by J. D. Sedding, is consecrated.{{cite web |title=Holy Trinity |url=http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/holytrinity/holytrinity.htm |website=www.buildingconservation.com |access-date=8 August 2018}}
• May 30 – The James A. Garfield Memorial at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by George W. Keller, is dedicated.{{cite web |title=Postcards of Cleveland |url=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm/search/collection/postcards/searchterm/Garfield%20Monument/field/subjec/mode/all/conn/and/order/title2/ad/asc/cosuppress/ |website=Cleveland State University Library |access-date=8 August 2018 |archive-date=9 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809025507/http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm/search/collection/postcards/searchterm/Garfield%20Monument/field/subjec/mode/all/conn/and/order/title2/ad/asc/cosuppress/ |url-status=dead }}
• September 29 – St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, Westminster, designed by Edward Goldie, is opened.{{NHLE |desc=Presbytery to the Roman Catholic Church of St James, Non Civil Parish |num=1430834 |accessdate=8 August 2018}}
• The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by John Eisenmann.{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Carol Poh |last2=Wheeler |first2=Robert Anthony |title=Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796-1996 |date=1997 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0253211476 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qJgpDMlCOPEC&pg=PA96|language=en}}
• The Demarest Building, a commercial building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, is completed.{{cite web |last1=Gray |first1=Christopher |title=Echoes of Carnegie Hall on Fifth Avenue |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/realestate/03scap.html |website=nytimes |access-date=8 August 2018 |language=en}}
• Edwin Lutyens' first commission, Crooksbury, a country house near Farnham, England, is completed.{{NHLE |desc=CROOKSBURY HOUSE, FIG TREE COURT AND WEST WING, Tilford |num=1294507 |accessdate=8 August 2018}}
• The Second Madison Square Garden, designed by Stanford White, is completed on the site of the first Madison Square Garden.{{cite web |title=Mad. Sq. History: Madison Square Garden |url=https://www.madisonsquarepark.org/news/mad-sq-history-madison-square-garden |website=Madison Square Park |publisher=Madison Square Park Conservancy |access-date=31 October 2018}}

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Gibson.{{cite web |title=John Gibson |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201220 |website=www.scottisharchitects.org.uk |access-date=8 August 2018}}
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Emmanuel Pontremoli.{{cite book |last1=Cassanelli |first1=Roberto |title=Ruins of Ancient Rome: The Drawings of French Architects who Won the Prix de Rome, 1786-1924 |date=2002 |publisher=Getty Publications |isbn=9780892366804 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hoKdkTKh9N0C&pg=PA19|language=en}}

• February 9 – J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect (died 1963){{cite web |title=Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890-1963) |url=http://data.bnf.fr/12398874/jacobus_johannes_pieter_oud/ |website=data.bnf.fr |access-date=8 August 2018 |language=en}}
• April 17 – Carl Krayl, German architect (died 1947){{cite web |last1=Warnat |first1=Grit |title=Der Baukünstler von Magdeburg |url=https://m.volksstimme.de/sachsen-anhalt/20161020/ausstellung-der-baukuenstler-von-magdeburg |website=m.volksstimme.de |access-date=8 August 2018 |language=de}}
• March 20 – Owen Williams, English structural engineer (died 1969){{cite ODNB |title=Williams, Sir (Evan) Owen (1890–1969), civil engineer and architect |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-51931 |year=2004 |access-date=8 August 2018 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/51931 }}
• May 4 – Ingrid Wallberg, Swedish architect (died 1965){{cite web|last1=Brügge|first1=Anne|title=Ingrid Wallberg|url=https://skbl.se/sv/artikel/IngridWallberg|website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|language=Swedish|access-date=2021-06-03|date=2018-03-08|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731172438/https://skbl.se/sv/artikel/IngridWallberg |archive-date=2019-07-31 }}
• July 31 – Louis de Soissons, Canadian-born English architect (died 1962){{cite web |title=Louis de Soissons |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/louis-de-soissons-ra |website=www.royalacademy.org.uk |access-date=8 August 2018}}
• November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian architect and designer (died 1941){{cite web |title=Else Lissitzky |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/el-lissitzky |website=www.guggenheim.org |access-date=8 August 2018}}
• Philip Hepworth, English architect (died 1963){{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Mervyn |title=English Garden Cities: An introduction |date=2015 |publisher=Historic England |isbn=9781848023208 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOkqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56}}

• October 20 – Alfred B. Mullett, American architect (born 1834){{cite web |title=Albert B. Mullett|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-B-Mullett|access-date=8 August 2018}}

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