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1897 in architecture

The year 1897 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events
• April 3 – Vienna Secession group founded by Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann among others. • David Ewart succeeds Thomas Fuller as Chief Dominion Architect of the Government of Canada. • James Knox Taylor becomes Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. ==Buildings and structures==
Buildings and structures
Buildings in Washington, D.C. • May 1 • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum, designed by Wilhelm Dahlerup, opens in Copenhagen. • Tennessee Centennial Exposition opens in Nashville, with a temporary pyramid for Memphis, TN and a copy of the Parthenon, which will be rebuilt of permanent materials in the 1920s. • 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: • Long Copse, Ewhurst, Surrey, designed by Alfred Hoare Powell, built. • Munstead Wood, designed by Edwin Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll, completed. • 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. • 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. ==Awards==
Awards
Births
• 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) • F. X. Velarde, English Catholic church architect (died 1960) ==Deaths==
Deaths
• January 10 – David Brandon, Scottish-born architect (born 1813) • March 25 – Charles Eliot, American landscape architect (born 1859) • May 6 – George Gilbert Scott, Jr., English architect (born 1839) • June 22 – William Mason, New Zealand architect (born 1810) • December 11 – John Loughborough Pearson, British architect (born 1817) • William Lang, American architect (born 1846) ==References==
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