Editing 1897 in architecture

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The year '''1897 in architecture''' involved some significant events.

==Events==
* April 3 – [[Vienna Secession]] group founded by [[Otto Wagner]], [[Joseph Maria Olbrich]] and [[Josef Hoffmann]] among others.
* [[David Ewart]] succeeds [[Thomas Fuller (architect)|Thomas Fuller]] as [[Chief Dominion Architect]] of the Government of Canada.
* [[James Knox Taylor]] becomes [[Office of the Supervising Architect|Supervising Architect]] of the [[United States Department of the Treasury]].

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1897}}
===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.

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Pierre Cuypers]].

==Births==
* January 2 – [[William Henry Harrison (architect)|William Henry Harrison]], American architect working in [[Whittier, California]] (died [[1988 in architecture|1988]])
* January 23 – [[Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky]], Austrian architect (died [[2000 in architecture|2000]])
* February 11 – [[Jacob Christie Kielland]], Norwegian architect (died [[1972 in architecture|1972]])
* February 25 – [[Elisabeth Coit]], American architect (died [[1987 in architecture|1987]])
* April 18 – [[Charles N. Agree]], American architect working in Detroit (died [[1982 in architecture|1982]])
* May 15 – [[Rudolf Schwarz (architect)|Rudolf Schwarz]], German architect (died [[1961 in architecture|1961]])
* August 16 – [[Helge Thiis]], Norwegian architect and restorer (died 1972)
* September 9 – [[Nancy Lancaster]], née Perkins, American-born interior decorator (died [[1994 in architecture|1994]])
* [[F. X. Velarde]], English Catholic church architect (died [[1960 in architecture|1960]])

==Deaths==
* January 10 – [[David Brandon (architect)|David Brandon]], Scottish-born architect (born [[1813 in architecture|1813]])
* March 25 – [[Charles Eliot (landscape architect)|Charles Eliot]], American landscape architect (born [[1859 in architecture|1859]])
* May 6 – [[George Gilbert Scott, Jr.]], English architect (born [[1839 in architecture|1839]])
* June 22 – [[William Mason (architect)|William Mason]], New Zealand architect (born [[1810 in architecture|1810]])
* December 11 – [[John Loughborough Pearson]], British architect (born [[1817 in architecture|1817]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Goold|first1=David|title=John Loughborough Pearson – Dictionary of Scottish Architects|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=202441|website=www.scottisharchitects.org.uk|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
* [[William Lang (architect)|William Lang]], American architect (born [[1846 in architecture|1846]])

==References==
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