1897 in architecture
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The year 1897 in architecture involved some significant events.
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[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.
- On May 1, the Tennessee Centennial Exposition opened in Nashville, with a temporary pyramid for Memphis, TN and a copy of the Parthenon, which was later rebuilt of permanent materials in the 1920s.
[edit] Events
- Vienna Secession group founded by Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann among others.
[edit] Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Pierre Cuypers.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
[edit] Births
- January 23 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (died 2000)
- April 18 - Charles N. Agree (died 1982)
