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==