1901 in architecture
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The year 1901 in architecture involved some significant events.
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- Federal Court House and Post office for the Upper Midwest, now the "Landmark Center", Saint Paul, Minnesota by Willoughby J. Edbrooke is completed.
- Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is completed, the world's tallest masonry building.
- The Town Hall of Słupsk, Poland, was built.
- Union Station in Washington, DC, designed by Daniel Burnham and Peirce Anderson is commissioned.
- Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, designed by Nikola Tesla and Stanford White is begun.
- Ward W. Willits House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, designed by C. Harrison Townsend is completed.
- The Génin-Louis Grain Shop in Nancy, designed by Henry Gutton and his nephew Henri Gutton, is built.
- The Vaxelaire Department Store in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Eugène Vallin, is completed.
- The Glasgow International Exhibition (1901) was held with new architecture by James Millar and Charles Renee Mackintosh and transplanted mock tudor cottages from Port Sunlight,.[1][2]
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- ^ Findling, John E, ed. "Glasgow 1901". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 164. ISBN 9780786434169.
- ^ Findling, John E, ed. "Glasgow 1901". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 165. ISBN 9780786434169.