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Overview of the events of 1898 in architecture
The year 1898 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
St. Paul Building , New YorkSt. 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
Awards
Births
February 3 – Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect, designer, sculptor and painter[ 3] 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] 1972 )October 4 – Jo van den Broek , Dutch architect (died 1978 )Giuseppe Samoná , Italian architect (died 1983 )Charles Garnier
Deaths
References
^ Historic England (1970). "Broadleys (1224995)" . National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 2015-03-09 .^ "Chronology" . The C.F.A. Voysey Society. 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-09 .^ Chilvers, Ian, ed. (2004) [1988]. "Aalto, Alvar". The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3rd ed.) Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860476-9 .
^ Richardson, Albert (1932-04-22). "Shakespeare Memorial Theatre". The Builder 142 : 718.^ 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 .
