1881 in architecture

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The year 1881 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

March 29 – Raymond Hood, American Art Deco architect (died 1934)
August 2 – Walter Godfrey, English architectural historian and architect (died 1961)
date unknown – Nikolai Ladovsky, Russian avant-garde architect and educator, leader of the rationalist^[2] movement in 1920s architecture (died 1941)

January 25 – Konstantin Thon, official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Tsar Nicholas (born 1794)
April 20 – William Burges, English architect and designer (born 1827)^[3]
December 14 – Decimus Burton, English architect and garden designer (born 1800)
December 18 – George Edmund Street, English architect (born 1824)

^ "Discovering the Natural History Museum". The Telegraph. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
^ Not related to rationalism of 18th-19th centuries
^ Wroth, Warwick William (1886). "Burges, William" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.