1897 in architecture

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The year 1897 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

May 1 - Tennessee Centennial Exposition opens in Nashville, with a temporary pyramid for Memphis, TN and a copy of the Parthenon, which will be rebuilt of permanent materials in the 1920s.
May 12 - The new Oxford Town Hall, designed by Henry Hare, is officially opened in England.
May 16 - The Teatro Massimo is inaugurated in Palermo; it is the largest opera theatre in Italy and the third in Europe.
The Vienna Secession Building, designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich is completed.
Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is begun in Scotland.
The Flatiron Building of Atlanta, Georgia, United States is completed, five years before New York's more famous structure.
The Battenberg Mausoleum, Sofia, is completed.
The Weaver building, a mill at Swansea in Wales, becomes the first building in the United Kingdom to be constructed from reinforced concrete, by L. G. Mouchel to Hennebique patents.^[1]

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