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1898 in architecture
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The year 1898 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings and structures
Buildings
- St. Paul Building in New York City is completed as one of the tallest buildings in the world at this time.
- 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 Broad Leys 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.
- Watts Cemetery Chapel in Compton, Surrey, England, designed by Mary Seton Watts, is completed.
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Events
- To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform is published by Ebenezer Howard, calling for the creation of garden cities.
- York and Sawyer architectural practice established in New York City.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – George Aitchison.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Léon Chifflot.
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)

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Deaths
- August 3
- John Thomas Emmett, English architect (born 1823)
- Charles Garnier, French architect (born 1825)[5]
- September 28 – Thomas Fuller, Canadian architect (born 1823)
References
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