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{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Refimprove|date=June 2018}} {{Year nav topic5|1909|architecture}} The year '''1909 in architecture''' involved some significant events. ==Buildings and structures== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1909}} ===Buildings=== [[File:Hjorthagens kyrka Stockholm gavel entre 20060401.jpg|thumb|[[Hjorthagen Church]] in [[Stockholm]], Sweden]] [[File:RhB Ge 4-4 II Wiesener Viadukt.jpg|thumb|[[Wiesen Viaduct]] on the [[Rhaetian Railway]] in Switzerland]] [[File:Opernhaus in Chemnitz.jpg|thumb|The [[Opernhaus Chemnitz]] in Germany]] * [[February 28]] – The [[Praetorian Building]] in [[Dallas, Texas]], USA, opens to visitors. * [[March 15]] – [[Selfridges, Oxford Street]], London department store, designed by American architect [[Daniel Burnham]], opens.<ref>{{cite web |title=Selfridges marks 100th birthday |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7940221.stm |website=BBC |accessdate=11 June 2018 |date=15 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lockyer |first1=Daphne |title='Mr Selfridge': It’s 'Downton Abbey’ with tills... |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9747133/Mr-Selfridge-Its-Downton-Abbey-with-tills....html |website=The Telegraph |accessdate=11 June 2018 |date=15 December 2012}}</ref> * [[March 25]] – [[Hjorthagen Church]] in [[Stockholm]], Sweden, opens. * [[March 30]] – [[Queensboro Bridge]] in New York City, designed by [[Gustav Lindenthal]] in collaboration with [[Leffert L. Buck]] and [[Henry Hornbostel]], opens. * [[April 25]] – A bomb blast damages [[St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans)]]. * [[May 1]] – Opening of the [[Exposition Internationale de l'Est de la France|International Exhibition of the East of France]], held in [[Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle|Nancy]] until October 31. Many architects of the [[École de Nancy]], including [[Lucien Weissenburger]], [[Émile André]], [[Émile Toussaint]], [[Louis Marchal]], [[Paul Charbonnier]], [[Eugène Vallin]], and others design the pavilions for the exhibition. * [[May 2]] – [[St. Joseph, Wedding]], Berlin, designed by Friar Wilhelm Rincklake, revised by Wilhelm Frydag, consecrated. * [[July 1]] – [[Wiesen Viaduct]] on the [[Rhaetian Railway]] in Switzerland, designed by Henning Friedrich, opens. * [[July 14]] – [[Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro)]] opens. * [[October 10]] – [[Fades viaduct]] in France opens. * October – [[United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House (Spokane, Washington)]], designed under the supervision of [[James Knox Taylor]], opens. * [[November 8]] – [[Boston Opera House (1909)|Boston Opera House]] in the United States opens. * [[November 25]] – [[Bucharest Russian Church]] sanctified. * Catholic [[Cathedral of the Madeleine]] in [[Salt Lake City]], Utah, designed by [[Carl M. Neuhausen]] and Bernard O. Mecklenburg, completed. * [[Basílica del Voto Nacional]] in [[Quito]], [[Ecuador]], designed by Emilio Tarlier, completed. * [[Holy Myrrhbearers Cathedral]] in [[Baku]], Azerbaijan, built. * [[St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church, Kyiv|St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church]] in [[Kyiv]], completed by [[Władysław Horodecki]] to a design of Stanisław Wołowski, consecrated. * [[Saint-Édouard Church]] in [[Montreal]], Quebec, designed by Joseph-Ovide Turgeon, completed. * [[Novi Sad Synagogue]] in Serbia, designed by Baumhorn Lipót, completed. * Façade of [[San Silvestro, Venice]], designed by Giuseppe Sicher, completed. * [[Grand Post Office]] in [[Istanbul]], Turkey, designed by [[Vedat Tek]], completed. * United States Post Offices in New York State at [[United States Post Office (Corning, New York)|Corning]], [[United States Post Office (Ithaca, New York)|Ithaca]] and [[United States Post Office (Little Falls, New York)|Little Falls]], designed under the supervision of [[James Knox Taylor]], completed. * [[Opernhaus Chemnitz]] in Germany, designed by Richard Möbius, completed. * [[Higgins Building]] in [[Los Angeles]] completed. * [[Kansas City Museum|Corinthian Hall]] ([[Robert A. Long]] House) in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], designed by Henry Hoit of [[Hoit, Price and Barnes]], completed. * Construction work begins on the [[Robie House]], designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], in [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]], [[Chicago]]. * Construction work begins on [[Rodmarton Manor]], designed by [[Ernest Barnsley]], in Gloucestershire, England. ==Awards== * [[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[Charles Follen McKim]]. * [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Arthur John Evans]]. * [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: Maurice Boutterin. ==Births== * [[March 16]] – [[Ernesto Nathan Rogers]], Italian architect, writer and educator (died [[1969 in architecture|1969]]) * [[April 25]] – [[William Pereira]], American architect (died [[1985 in architecture|1985]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Gordon Bunshaft]], American architect (died [[1990 in architecture|1990]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Moshe Mayer]], Romanian Jewish architect (died [[1993 in architecture|1993]]) * [[Genia Averbuch]], Russian Jewish architect (died [[1977 in architecture|1977]]) ==Deaths== * [[September 14]] – [[Charles Follen McKim]], American Beaux-Arts architect (born [[1847 in architecture|1847]]) * [[September 18]] – [[Auguste Choisy]], French architectural historian (born [[1841 in architecture|1841]]) * [[November 9]] – [[Thomas Worthington (architect)|Thomas Worthington]], English architect associated with public buildings in Manchester (born [[1826 in architecture|1826]]) * [[November 24]] – [[James Ebenezer Saunders]], English architecture (born 1829/30) ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1909 architecture| ]]
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