Overview of the events of 1901 in architecture
The year 1901 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Philadelphia City Hall The Erlöserkirche, Munich , Germany Federal Court House and Post office for the Upper Midwest, the modern-day "Landmark Center" , St. Paul, Minnesota , designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke , is completed.Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, designed by John McArthur Jr. , is completed, the world's tallest occupied masonry building.Stolp Town Hall , in modern-day Słupsk , Poland , designed by Karl Zaar with Rudolf Vahl, is opened.Germantown Junction station, North Philadelphia , designed by Theophilus P. Chandler Jr. , is completed.Moscow Vindavsky railway station , designed by Stanislav Brzhozovsky, is opened.Washington Union Station , designed by Daniel Burnham and W. Pierce Anderson, is commissioned.Union Trust Company Building in Providence, Rhode Island , designed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson , is completed.Postal Savings Bank building (Postatakarékpénztár ), Budapest , designed by Ödön Lechner , is completed.Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York , designed by Nikola Tesla and Stanford White is begun.Willits House in Highland Park, Illinois , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright .Deanery Garden in Sonning , England, designed by Edwin Lutyens with garden by Gertrude Jekyll , is completed.Langer House in Vienna, designed by Jože Plečnik , is completed.Whitechapel Art Gallery in east London , designed by Charles Harrison Townsend , is opened.Horniman Museum in south London, designed by C. Harrison Townsend, is completed.Génin-Louis Grain Shop in Nancy , designed by Henry Gutton and his nephew Henri Gutton , is built.Vaxelaire Department Store in Nancy , designed by Émile André and Eugène Vallin , is completed.Jakarta Cathedral in the Dutch East Indies , completed by M. J. Hulswit following a design of 1891 by Pastor Antonius Dijkmans, is consecrated.Erlöserkirche, Munich , designed by Theodor Fischer , is consecrated.Zuoz Bridge, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart , is built.[ 1] The Glasgow International Exhibition (1901) is held with new architecture by James Millar and Charles Rennie Mackintosh and transplanted mock Tudor cottages from Port Sunlight .[ 2]
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References
^ Brown, David J. (1993). Bridges . London: Mitchell Beazley. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-85732-163-0 ^ Pelle, Kimberley D. "Glasgow 1901". In Findling, John E. (ed.). Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions . McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 164– 5. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9
