Editing 1898 in architecture

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The year '''1898 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1898}}
===Buildings===
[[File:StPaulBuildingNY.JPG|thumb|upright|[[St. Paul Building]], New York]]
* [[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, British Columbia|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 (architect)|Charles Voysey]] designs the country houses [[Broad Leys]] and Moor Crag overlooking [[Windermere]] in the [[Lake District]] of England (completed [[1900 in architecture|1900]]).<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Broadleys|num=1224995|year=1970|accessdate=2015-03-09}} "One of Voysey's finest houses and one of the most important of its date in Europe".</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chronology|url=http://www.voyseysociety.org/voysey/chronology.html|publisher=The C.F.A. Voysey Society|year=2014|access-date=2015-03-09}}</ref>
* [[Edwin Lutyens]] designs [[Goddards]] rest home in [[Abinger]], England (completed 1900).
* Construction of [[Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Zamora|Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe]] in [[Zamora, Michoacán]], Mexico, designed by Jesús Hernández Segura, is begun.
* [[Synagogue du Quai Kléber|The New Synagogue]] of [[Strasbourg]] is inaugurated.
* [[Watts Cemetery Chapel]] in [[Compton, Guildford|Compton, Surrey]], England, designed by [[Mary Fraser Tytler|Mary Seton Watts]], is completed.

==Events==
* ''[[To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform]]'' is published by [[Ebenezer Howard]], calling for the creation of [[Garden city movement|garden cities]].
* [[York and Sawyer]] architectural practice established in New York City.

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[George Aitchison]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: Léon Chifflot.

==Births==
* [[February 3]] – [[Alvar Aalto]], Finnish architect, designer, sculptor and painter<ref>Chilvers, Ian, ed. (2004) [1988]. "Aalto, Alvar". ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art'' (3rd ed.) Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-860476-9}}.</ref> (died [[1976 in architecture|1976]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Steen Eiler Rasmussen]], Danish architect and urban planner (died [[1990 in architecture|1990]])
* [[March 4]] – [[Robert Schmertz (artist)|Robert Schmertz]], American folk musician and architect (died [[1975 in architecture|1975]])
* [[July 15]] – [[William Strudwick Arrasmith]], American architect, designer of [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] bus stations (died [[1965 in architecture|1965]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Elisabeth Scott]], English architect, designer of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon<ref>{{cite journal|last=Richardson|first=Albert|author-link=Albert Richardson (architect)|date=1932-04-22|title=Shakespeare Memorial Theatre|journal=[[Building (magazine)|The Builder]]|volume=142|page=718}} Quoted in Walker (1999: 257).</ref> (died [[1972 in architecture|1972]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Jo van den Broek]], Dutch architect (died [[1978 in architecture|1978]])
* [[Giuseppe Samoná]], Italian architect (died [[1983 in architecture|1983]])
[[File:Charles Garnier by Nadar - Leniaud 2003 p142.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Charles Garnier (architect)|Charles Garnier]]]]

==Deaths==
* [[August 3]]
** [[John Thomas Emmett]], English architect (born [[1823 in architecture|1823]])
** [[Charles Garnier (architect)|Charles Garnier]], French architect (born [[1825 in architecture|1825]])<ref>Mead, Christopher Curtis (1991). ''Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra: Architectural Empathy and the Renaissance of French Classicism''. New York: The Architectural History Foundation; Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. {{ISBN|9780262132756}}.</ref>
* [[September 28]] – [[Thomas Fuller (architect)|Thomas Fuller]], Canadian architect (born 1823)

==References==
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