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<h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1898</p> <h3>Buildings</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/St._Paul_Building/twzkAHXt">St. Paul Building</a> in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a> is completed as one of the tallest buildings in the world at this time.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Compton_Hill_Water_Tower/a1f7CarH">Compton Hill Water Tower</a> in <a href="/facts/St._Louis/22beLecX">St. Louis</a>, Missouri, designed by <a href="/facts/Harvey_Ellis/AXezG0wb">Harvey Ellis</a>, is built.</li> <li><a href="/facts/San_Francisco_Ferry_Building/UUHQVQlk">San Francisco Ferry Building</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/A._Page_Brown/D6fFfIXc">A. Page Brown</a>, is completed.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Queen_Victoria_Building,_Sydney/ngeUHaE7">Queen Victoria Building, Sydney</a>, <a href="/facts/Australia/qLHpbppq">Australia</a> is completed.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/British_Columbia_Parliament_Buildings/25CEnwTo">British Columbia Parliament Buildings</a> in <a href="/facts/Victoria,_British_Columbia/5bKrLfN2">Victoria</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Francis_Rattenbury/9zfSe41c">Francis Rattenbury</a>, are opened.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Lubyanka_Building/m2BREzAg">Lubyanka Building</a> (headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company) in <a href="/facts/Moscow/XUU6VkdY">Moscow</a> is built.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Arts_and_Crafts_movement/nvYzhGJp">Arts and Crafts movement</a> architect <a href="/facts/Charles_Voysey_(architect)/HHwG9UU3">Charles Voysey</a> designs the country houses <a href="/facts/Broad_Leys/gppuUMeI">Broad Leys</a> and Moor Crag overlooking <a href="/facts/Windermere/V2XT6sTw">Windermere</a> in the <a href="/facts/Lake_District/yuPLDXT8">Lake District</a> of England (completed <a href="/facts/1900_in_architecture/oP1ukoow">1900</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Edwin_Lutyens/uByyBKRS">Edwin Lutyens</a> designs <a href="/facts/Goddards/gTIItpHR">Goddards</a> rest home in <a href="/facts/Abinger/N0K5It1r">Abinger</a>, England (completed 1900).</li> <li>Construction of <a href="/facts/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe,_Zamora/Qg9bjdC2">Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe</a> in <a href="/facts/Zamora,_Michoac%C3%A1n/zL4lXroT">Zamora, Michoacán</a>, Mexico, designed by Jesús Hernández Segura, is begun.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Synagogue_du_Quai_Kl%C3%A9ber/UMdJTUBx">The New Synagogue</a> of <a href="/facts/Strasbourg/MTdQtoPy">Strasbourg</a> is inaugurated.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Watts_Cemetery_Chapel/rDjVltxL">Watts Cemetery Chapel</a> in <a href="/facts/Compton,_Guildford/eAg9xT9C">Compton, Surrey</a>, England, designed by <a href="/facts/Mary_Fraser_Tytler/SoyXnEAk">Mary Seton Watts</a>, is completed.</li></ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/To-Morrow:_A_Peaceful_Path_to_Real_Reform/0yooxaFI">To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform</a></i> is published by <a href="/facts/Ebenezer_Howard/hzT2HXSY">Ebenezer Howard</a>, calling for the creation of <a href="/facts/Garden_city_movement/IflJvEQf">garden cities</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/York_and_Sawyer/Td0Ag20o">York and Sawyer</a> architectural practice established in New York City.</li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects/grdupR5D">RIBA</a> <a href="/facts/Royal_Gold_Medal/xhPS9zJU">Royal Gold Medal</a> – <a href="/facts/George_Aitchison/mNQUqcSm">George Aitchison</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Grand_Prix_de_Rome/edb3ht9K">Grand Prix de Rome</a>, architecture: Léon Chifflot.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/February_3/5zp8ahYw">February 3</a> – <a href="/facts/Alvar_Aalto/vhHeMTTz">Alvar Aalto</a>, Finnish architect, designer, sculptor and painter<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> (died <a href="/facts/1976_in_architecture/IBxXKuF4">1976</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_19/psh1WWTJ">February 19</a> – <a href="/facts/Steen_Eiler_Rasmussen/soPlYudp">Steen Eiler Rasmussen</a>, Danish architect and urban planner (died <a href="/facts/1990_in_architecture/hrAYqE2c">1990</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_4/BsxaJumF">March 4</a> – <a href="/facts/Robert_Schmertz_(artist)/YVDehc0C">Robert Schmertz</a>, American folk musician and architect (died <a href="/facts/1975_in_architecture/XPbYnTar">1975</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_15/mPfeUQQy">July 15</a> – <a href="/facts/William_Strudwick_Arrasmith/SAzDBfrt">William Strudwick Arrasmith</a>, American architect, designer of <a href="/facts/Greyhound_Lines/J9cK6T5E">Greyhound</a> bus stations (died <a href="/facts/1965_in_architecture/CCmFoEbh">1965</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_20/QLfbxI7z">September 20</a> – <a href="/facts/Elisabeth_Scott/yIBTXukm">Elisabeth Scott</a>, English architect, designer of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> (died <a href="/facts/1972_in_architecture/V8JshqUg">1972</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_4/eRgxIz2l">October 4</a> – <a href="/facts/Jo_van_den_Broek/EV89aYWM">Jo van den Broek</a>, Dutch architect (died <a href="/facts/1978_in_architecture/T37sHwGX">1978</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Giuseppe_Samon%C3%A1/s4VVEQXt">Giuseppe Samoná</a>, Italian architect (died <a href="/facts/1983_in_architecture/FGKQYRy8">1983</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/August_3/9AcKoe0e">August 3</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/John_Thomas_Emmett/bIGD06ze">John Thomas Emmett</a>, English architect (born <a href="/facts/1823_in_architecture/msuAUpsN">1823</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Charles_Garnier_(architect)/CIdo0hBj">Charles Garnier</a>, French architect (born <a href="/facts/1825_in_architecture/Cnfu16uU">1825</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/September_28/G8Tf1wmC">September 28</a> – <a href="/facts/Thomas_Fuller_(architect)/adImdSHd">Thomas Fuller</a>, Canadian architect (born 1823)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Historic England (1970). "Broadleys (1224995)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2015-03-09. "One of Voysey's finest houses and one of the most important of its date in Europe". <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Chronology". The C.F.A. Voysey Society. 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-09. <a href="http://www.voyseysociety.org/voysey/chronology.html" target="_blank">http://www.voyseysociety.org/voysey/chronology.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Chilvers, Ian, ed. (2004) [1988]. "Aalto, Alvar". The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3rd ed.) Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860476-9. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Richardson, Albert (1932-04-22). "Shakespeare Memorial Theatre". The Builder. 142: 718. Quoted in Walker (1999: 257). <a href="/wiki/Albert_Richardson_(architect)" target="_blank">/wiki/Albert_Richardson_(architect)</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>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. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>