Editing 1897 in architecture (section)

===Buildings===
[[File:Thomas Jefferson Building Aerial by Carol M. Highsmith.jpg|thumb| The [[Thomas Jefferson Building|Library of Congress Building]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]
[[File:Secession 2016, Vienna.jpg|thumb|[[Secession Building, Vienna]]]]
* May 1
** [[Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek]] art museum, designed by Wilhelm Dahlerup, opens in Copenhagen.
** [[Tennessee Centennial Exposition]] opens in [[Nashville, Tennessee|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 (architect)|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.
* November 1 – The [[Thomas Jefferson Building|Library of Congress Building]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], designed by [[Paul J. Pelz]], is opened.
* Christmas – The [[Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul]], [[Tunis]], is completed.
* The [[Secession Building, Vienna]], designed by [[Joseph Maria Olbrich]] is completed in Austria.
* [[Glasgow School of Art]], designed by [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]], is begun in Scotland.
* [[Arts and Crafts movement]] houses in England:
** Long Copse, [[Ewhurst, Surrey]], designed by [[Alfred Hoare Powell]], built.
** [[Munstead Wood]], designed by [[Edwin Lutyens]] for [[Gertrude Jekyll]], completed.
* The [[Flatiron Building (Atlanta)|Flatiron Building]] of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], United States is completed, five years before [[New York City]]'s more famous structure.
* [[First Church of Christ, Scientist (Chicago, Illinois)]], designed by [[Solon Spencer Beman]], is built.
* The [[Battenberg Mausoleum]], [[Sofia]], designed by Hermann Mayer, 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 [[Louis Gustave Mouchel|L. G. Mouchel]] to [[François Hennebique|Hennebique]] patents.<ref>{{cite web|title=Weaver & Co mill, site of|url=http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=906|work=Engineering Timelines|accessdate=2010-11-01}}</ref>
* [[Dresden Hauptbahnhof]] railway station in Germany, designed by [[Ernst Giese]] and [[Paul Weidner]], is completed.
* Restoration and remodelling of [[Castelldefels Castle]] in Spain by [[Enric Sagnier]] is completed.