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The year '1885 in architecture' involved some significant events.

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Buildings

Awards

Births

Deaths

Buildings

★ The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, designed by William LeBaron Jenney, is completed, often regarded as the world's first skyscraper.

Awards

★ Royal Gold Medal - Heinrich Schliemann.

★ Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

★ September 22 - Gunnar Asplund (died 1940)

★ December 5 - Ernest Cormier (died 1980)

★ December 28 - Vladimir Tatlin (died 1953)

Deaths