The year 1884 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings
- Antoni GaudÃÂ becomes architect for the Sagrada FamÃÂlia church in Barcelona.
- Gustav Adolf Church, Liverpool, England, designed by W. D. Caröe, is completed.
- Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., designed by Robert Mills, is completed.
- Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest, designed by Miklós Ybl, is opened.
- Budapest Keleti railway station, designed by Gyula Rochlitz and János Feketeházy, is completed.
- Garabit viaduct in France, engineered by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin, is completed.
- The Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, is completed.
- Cornerstone of Statue of Liberty laid in New York Harbor.
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