1898 in architecture

Buildings and structures

The year 1898 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings

St. Paul Building in New York City is completed as one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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 Broadleys 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

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)
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)

Broadleys, Windermere

↑ "List entry: Broadleys; List entry Number: 1224995". English Heritage. 1970. Retrieved 2015-03-09. One of Voysey's finest houses and one of the most important of its date in Europe.
↑ "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. Quoted in Walker (1999: 257).
↑ 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.

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