1897 in architecture

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Contents 1 Buildings 2 Events 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Buildings

• Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is begun.
• The Flatiron Building of Atlanta, Georgia, United States is completed 5 years before New York's more famous structure.
• Battenberg Mausoleum, Sofia is completed

[edit] Events

• Vienna Secession group founded by Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann among others.

[edit] Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Pierre Cuypers

[edit] Births

• January 23 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (died 2000)
• April 18 - Charles N. Agree (died 1982)

[edit] Deaths