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Overview of the events of 1897 in architecture
The year 1897 in architecture involved some significant events.
The
Library of Congress Building in
Washington, D.C.
Secession Building, Vienna
- May 1
- May 12 – The new
Oxford Town Hall, designed by
Henry Hare, is officially opened in England.
- May 16 – The
Teatro Massimo is inaugurated in
Palermo; it is the largest opera theatre in Italy and the third in Europe.
- November 1 – The
Library of Congress Building in
Washington, D.C., designed by
Paul J. Pelz, is opened.
- Christmas – The
Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul,
Tunis, is completed.
- The
Secession Building, Vienna, designed by
Joseph Maria Olbrich is completed in Austria.
-
Glasgow School of Art, designed by
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is begun in Scotland.
-
Arts and Crafts movement houses in England:
- The
Flatiron Building of
Atlanta,
Georgia, United States is completed, five years before
New York City's more famous structure.
-
First Church of Christ, Scientist (Chicago, Illinois), designed by
Solon Spencer Beman, is built.
- The
Battenberg Mausoleum,
Sofia, designed by Hermann Mayer, is completed.
- The
Weaver building, a mill at
Swansea in
Wales, becomes the first building in the United Kingdom to be constructed from
reinforced concrete, by
L. G. Mouchel to
Hennebique patents.
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Dresden Hauptbahnhof railway station in Germany, designed by
Ernst Giese and
Paul Weidner, is completed.
- Restoration and remodelling of
Castelldefels Castle in Spain by
Enric Sagnier is completed.
- January 2 –
William Henry Harrison, American architect working in
Whittier, California (died
1988)
- January 23 –
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (died
2000)
- February 11 –
Jacob Christie Kielland, Norwegian architect (died
1972)
- February 25 –
Elisabeth Coit, American architect (died
1987)
- April 18 –
Charles N. Agree, American architect working in Detroit (died
1982)
- May 15 –
Rudolf Schwarz, German architect (died
1961)
- August 16 –
Helge Thiis, Norwegian architect and restorer (died 1972)
- September 9 –
Nancy Lancaster, née Perkins, American-born interior decorator (died
1994)
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F. X. Velarde, English Catholic church architect (died
1960)