1898 in architecture

Buildings , 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). • 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 (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 (died 1972) • October 4 – Jo van den Broek, Dutch architect (died 1978) • Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (died 1983) ==Deaths==

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