1898 in architecture

The year 1898 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Buildings and structures

Buildings

St. Paul Building, New York

• St. Paul Building in New York City is completed as one of the tallest buildings in the world at this time.
• Compton Hill Water Tower in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Harvey Ellis, is built.
• San Francisco Ferry Building, designed by A. Page Brown, is completed.
• The Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia is completed.
• The British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, designed by Francis Rattenbury, are opened.
• The Lubyanka Building (headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company) in Moscow is built.
• Arts and Crafts movement architect Charles Voysey designs the country houses Broad Leys and Moor Crag overlooking Windermere in the Lake District of England (completed 1900).[1][2]
• Edwin Lutyens designs Goddards rest home in Abinger, England (completed 1900).
• Construction of Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico, designed by Jesús Hernández Segura, is begun.
• The New Synagogue of Strasbourg is inaugurated.
• Watts Cemetery Chapel in Compton, Surrey, England, designed by Mary Seton Watts, is completed.

Events

• To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform is published by Ebenezer Howard, calling for the creation of garden cities.
• York and Sawyer architectural practice established in New York City.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – George Aitchison.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Léon Chifflot.

Births

• February 3 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designer, sculptor and painter[3] (died 1976)
• February 19 – Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Danish architect and urban planner (died 1990)
• March 4 – Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (died 1975)
• July 15 – William Strudwick Arrasmith, American architect, designer of Greyhound bus stations (died 1965)
• September 20 – Elisabeth Scott, English architect, designer of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon[4] (died 1972)
• October 4 – Jo van den Broek, Dutch architect (died 1978)
• Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (died 1983)

Charles Garnier

Deaths

• August 3
  • John Thomas Emmett, English architect (born 1823)
  • Charles Garnier, French architect (born 1825)[5]
• September 28 – Thomas Fuller, Canadian architect (born 1823)

References

1. Historic England (1970). "Broadleys (1224995)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2015-03-09. "One of Voysey's finest houses and one of the most important of its date in Europe".
2. "Chronology". The C.F.A. Voysey Society. 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
3. Chilvers, Ian, ed. (2004) [1988]. "Aalto, Alvar". The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3rd ed.) Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860476-9.
4. Richardson, Albert (1932-04-22). "Shakespeare Memorial Theatre". The Builder. 142: 718. Quoted in Walker (1999: 257).
5. Mead, Christopher Curtis (1991). Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra: Architectural Empathy and the Renaissance of French Classicism. New York: The Architectural History Foundation; Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262132756.