1873 in architecture
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The year 1873 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
A high point of Victorian architecture: G. G. Scott’s Midland Grand Hotel fronting London St Pancras station
- The Berlin victory column in Berlin, Germany is completed and inaugurated.
- Midland Grand Hotel in London, United Kingdom is opened, the largest hotel in the world at the time.
- Rua Augusta Arch in Lisbon is completed.
- Scots' Church in Melbourne, Australia is completed.
- Trinity Church, Copley Square - Boston, Massachusetts, designed by H.H. Richardson.
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Thomas Henry Wyatt
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
Births
- February 2 - Oskar Kaufmann (died 1956)
- August 20 - Eliel Saarinen (died 1950)
- Salvador Valeri i Pupurull (died 1954)
Deaths
- Samuel Sanders Teulon (born 1812
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