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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 York
- St. Paul Building in New York City is completed as one of the tallest buildings in the world at this time.
- , is built.
- San Francisco Ferry Building, designed by A. Page Brown, is completed.
- The 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.
- Edwin Lutyens designs Goddards rest home in Abinger, England (completed 1900).
- Construction of , 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] (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[4] (died 1972)
- October 4 – Jo van den Broek, Dutch architect (died 1978)
Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (died
1983
Charles Garnier
Deaths
References
