Editing 1885 in architecture (section)

===Buildings completed===
[[File:Athens academy.jpg|thumb|The [[Academy of Athens (modern)|Academy of Athens]], Greece]]
* Autumn – The [[Home Insurance Building]] in [[Chicago, Illinois]], designed by [[William Le Baron Jenney]]. With ten floors and a fireproof weight-bearing metal frame, it is regarded as the first [[skyscraper]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Home Insurance Building|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=10370|work=SkyscraperPage|access-date=2011-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629092831/http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=10370|archive-date=29 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Academy of Athens (modern)|Academy of Athens]] (Greece), designed by [[Theophil Hansen]] in [[1859 in architecture|1859]].
* [[Holloway Sanatorium]] near [[Virginia Water]] in England, designed by [[William Henry Crossland]].
* [[Sway, Hampshire#Sway Tower|Sway Tower]] in [[Hampshire]], England, designed by [[Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson|Andrew Peterson]] using concrete made with [[Portland cement]]. It remains the world's tallest non-reinforced concrete structure.<ref>{{cite book|last=James|first=J.|title=All about Sway Tower|location=Lymington|publisher=Lymington Museum Trust|year=1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Trout|first=Edwin|title=Sway Tower: an early example of high-rise concrete construction|journal=Concrete|date=October 2002|pages=64–5}}</ref>
* House for [[Kate Greenaway]], [[Frognal]], London, designed by [[Richard Norman Shaw]].
* Elmside (house), [[Grange Road, Cambridge]], England, designed by [[Edward Schroeder Prior|Edward Prior]].
* Rebuilt [[Framingham Railroad Station]] in [[Framingham, Massachusetts]], designed by [[H. H. Richardson]].