Buildings

• Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche), Berlin, Germany, by Franz Heinrich Schwechten, is consecrated.
• Holy Innocents Church, South Norwood, London, designed by George Frederick Bodley, is completed.
• Milwaukee City Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States is completed, giving it the title of tallest building in the world until 1899.
• Biltmore House on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, by Richard Morris Hunt is opened.
• Refuge Assurance Building in Manchester, England, by Alfred Waterhouse, is opened.
• Bishopsgate Institute in London, England, by Charles Harrison Townsend, is opened.
• New offices for The Glasgow Herald (now The Lighthouse) in Scotland, designed by John Keppie^[1] and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
• Pera Palace Hotel in Constantinople.
• D.T. Porter Building, the first steel frame skyscraper in Memphis, Tennessee, is completed. Designed by E.C. Jones.^[2]
• The Breakers, the largest of the Gilded Age mansions in Newport, Rhode Island is completed. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt.^{[citation needed]}