1900 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1900 in architecture
The year 1900 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
The Paris Métro in France
Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France
- May 30 — Daniel Burnham's Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library and Soldiers and Sailors Monument are dedicated together in Kenosha, Wisconsin[1][2]
- July 19 – The Paris Métro opens, with entrances designed by Hector Guimard in 1899.
- November 11 – Church of Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino in Rome, designed by Abbot Hildebrand de Hemptinne, is consecrated.
- Antoni Gaudí begins work on the Parc Güell, which he works on for the next fourteen years.
- The Gare d'Orsay, the modern-day Musée d'Orsay, is built in Paris by Victor Laloux.
- The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower at the University of Birmingham, England, is completed.
- The Administration Building of Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, designed by physicist and University President Robert Stewart Hyer, is completed.
- The OXO Tower in London, England, is completed.
- The Co-Operative Wholesale Society warehouse, the modern-day Malmaison Hotel, on the Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, designed by T. G. Guerrite for Louis Gustave Mouchel on the principles of François Hennebique with F. E. L. Harris as CWS architect, is completed.[3]
- The Imprimerie Royer (Royer Printing House) in Nancy, France, designed by Lucien Weissenburger, is completed.
- Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn, designed by Mikhail Preobrazhensky, is completed.
- Dohodno Zdanie, Rousse, Bulgaria.
- Villa Schutzenberger in Strasbourg, France, is completed.
- Kinloch Castle on the isle of Rùm, Scotland, designed by Leeming & Leeming, is completed.
- Bullough Mausoleum on the isle of Rùm, Scotland, built (approximate date).
- Victoria Theatre, Salford, England opens.
- The Orchard, Chorleywood, England, a house designed by C. F. A. Voysey for himself, is completed.
Awards
Births
Deaths
William White
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