Editing 1907 in architecture

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The year '''1907 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
[[File:Stadttheater02.jpg|thumb|[[Stadttheater Düren]]]]
* January – Plans for [[St David's Hotel, Harlech|St David's Hotel]], a hotel for golfers at [[Harlech]], [[Gwynedd]], Wales, are drawn up by the [[Glasgow School]] architect [[George Henry Walton|George Walton]] for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he is a member.<ref name="Pevsner">Haslam, R.; Orbach., J.; Voelcker, A. (2009). ''[[Pevsner Architectural Guides]]: The Buildings of Wales, Gwynedd''. Yale University Press. {{ISBN|0-300-14169-6}}.</ref> The hotel closes in 2008, and planning permission for demolition is approved in 2009.
* [[May 18]] – The foundation stone of [[Bedford School]] chapel in England, designed by [[George Frederick Bodley|G. F. Bodley]], is laid.
* [[September 29]] – The foundation stone of [[Washington National Cathedral]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
* [[October 6]] – [[Deutscher Werkbund]] is founded by [[Hermann Muthesius]] in [[Munich]].<ref>Burckhardt, Lucius (1987). ''The Werkbund''. Hyperion Press. {{ISBN|0-85072-108-3}}.</ref>
* City plan for [[Barcelona]] by [[Léon Jaussely]] officially adopted.
* District plan for [[Highland Park, Texas]], by [[Wilbur David Cook]] and [[George Kessler]] drawn up.
* English designer [[C. R. Ashbee]] is commissioned to build the Villa San Giorgio in [[Taormina]], Sicily.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ribapix.com/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=Wczo4OiJ0YW9ybWluYSI7&pg=1 |title=RIBA archive drawings. |access-date=2019-01-12 |archive-date=2015-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611000131/http://www.ribapix.com/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=Wczo4OiJ0YW9ybWluYSI7&pg=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1907}}
===Buildings completed===
[[File:Penzing (Wien) - Kirche am Steinhof (2).JPG|thumb|[[Kirche am Steinhof]] in [[Vienna]], Austria]]
[[File:Djenne Mosque Dubois 1911.jpg|thumb|[[Great Mosque of Djenné]] in [[French Sudan]]]]
* [[April 13]] – [[Old New York Evening Post Building|Old ''New York Evening Post'' Building]] at 20 [[Vesey Street]] on [[Manhattan]], designed in [[Art Nouveau]] style by [[Robert D. Kohn]], opened.
* [[October 8]] – [[Kirche am Steinhof]] in Vienna, designed by [[Otto Wagner]].
* [[Great Mosque of Djenné]] in [[French Sudan]].
* [[Port of Liverpool Building]] in [[Liverpool]], England, designed by Sir [[Arnold Thornely]].
* [[Tampere Cathedral]], Finland, designed by [[Lars Sonck]].
* [[Poti Cathedral]] in [[Georgia within the Russian Empire]], designed by [[Alexander Zelenko]] and Robert Marfeld and constructed on the [[Hennebique]] system.<ref>''Le béton armé'' no 126 (November 1908) pp. 147-153.</ref>
* [[St Matthew's Church, Paisley]] in Scotland, designed by W. D. McLennan.
* [[St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Krebs, Oklahoma)]].
* Rebuilt [[Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg]], in [[Alsace-Lorraine]], designed by [[Fritz Beblo]].
* The [[Magasins Réunis]], a large department store in [[Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle|Nancy]], France, by [[Lucien Weissenburger]] (after seventeen years of work).
* [[Villa Fruhinsholz]] in [[Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle|Nancy]], France, designed by [[Léon Cayotte]].
* [[Opernhaus Wuppertal|Stadttheater Barmen]] in [[Wuppertal]] and [[Stadttheater Düren]], both designed by [[Carl Moritz (architect)|Carl Moritz]] in Germany.
* North Hall, the fifth dormitory on the quad  at [[Vassar College]], USA. The building is renamed Jewett Hall in 1912 in honor of the College's first president, Milo P. Jewett.
* Rebuilt [[Basel SBB railway station]] in Switzerland, designed by Emil Faesch and Emmanuel La Roche.

==Awards==
* [[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[Aston Webb]].
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[John Belcher (architect)|John Belcher]].

==Births==
[[File:Oscar Niemeyer 1968.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Oscar Niemeyer]]]]
* [[June 17]] – [[Charles Eames]], American designer (died [[1978 in architecture|1978]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Ben-Ami Shulman]], Israeli architect (died [[1986 in architecture|1986]])
* [[August 13]]
** [[J. M. Richards]], English architectural writer (died [[1992 in architecture|1992]])
** [[Basil Spence]], Indian-born British architect (died [[1976 in architecture|1976]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Oscar Niemeyer]], Brazilian architect (died [[2012 in architecture|2012]])
* [[Walter Segal]], German-born architect, pioneer of self-build methods (died [[1985 in architecture|1985]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 24]] – [[Vilhelm Dahlerup]], Danish historicist architect (born [[1826 in architecture|1826]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Emanuele Luigi Galizia]], Maltese architect and civil engineer (born [[1830 in architecture|1830]])
* [[June 14]] – [[William Le Baron Jenney]], American architect credited with building the first skyscraper (born [[1832 in architecture|1832]])
* [[October 21]] – [[George Frederick Bodley]], English architect (born [[1827 in architecture|1827]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Ludwig Levy]], German Jewish historicist architect (born [[1854 in architecture|1854]])

==References==
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