1901 in architecture explained

The year 1901 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Federal Court House and Post office for the Upper Midwest, the modern-day "Landmark Center", St. Paul, Minnesota, designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, is completed.
• Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by John McArthur Jr., is completed, the world's tallest occupied masonry building.
• Stolp Town Hall, in modern-day Słupsk, Poland, designed by Karl Zaar with Rudolf Vahl, is opened.
• Germantown Junction station, North Philadelphia, designed by Theophilus P. Chandler Jr., is completed.
• Moscow Vindavsky railway station, designed by Stanislav Brzhozovsky, is opened.
• Washington Union Station, designed by Daniel Burnham and W. Pierce Anderson, is commissioned.
• Union Trust Company Building in Providence, Rhode Island, designed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson, is completed.
• Postal Savings Bank building (Postatakarékpénztár), Budapest, designed by Ödön Lechner, is completed.
• Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, designed by Nikola Tesla and Stanford White is begun.
• Willits House in Highland Park, Illinois, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Deanery Garden in Sonning, England, designed by Edwin Lutyens with garden by Gertrude Jekyll, is completed.
• Langer House in Vienna, designed by Jože Plečnik, is completed.
• Whitechapel Art Gallery in east London, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, is opened.
• Horniman Museum in south London, designed by C. Harrison Townsend, is completed.
• Génin-Louis Grain Shop in Nancy, designed by Henry Gutton and his nephew Henri Gutton, is built.
• Vaxelaire Department Store in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Eugène Vallin, is completed.
• Jakarta Cathedral in the Dutch East Indies, completed by M. J. Hulswit following a design of 1891 by Pastor Antonius Dijkmans, is consecrated.
• Erlöserkirche, Munich, designed by Theodor Fischer, is consecrated.
• Zuoz Bridge, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart, is built.^[1]
• The Glasgow International Exhibition (1901) is held with new architecture by James Millar and Charles Rennie Mackintosh and transplanted mock Tudor cottages from Port Sunlight.^[2]

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal: Not awarded
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean Hulot

Publications

• Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin – The Art of Building a Home

Births

• January 25 – Pablo Antonio, Filipino architect (died 1975)
• February 20 – Louis Kahn, American architect (died 1974)
• April 11 – Bertalan Árkay, Hungarian architect (died 1971)
• April 12 – Thomas Sharp, English urban planner (died 1978)
• June 23 – Amyas Connell, New Zealand-born architect (died 1980)
• September 8 – Judith Ledeboer, Dutch-born English architect (died 1990)

Deaths

• James Brooks, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1825)
• May 25 – J. M. Brydon, British architect (born 1840)

Notes and References

1. Book: Brown, David J.. Bridges. London. Mitchell Beazley. 1993. 978-1-85732-163-0. 119.
2. Book: Pelle, Kimberley D.. John E.. Findling. Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions . McFarland & Company, Inc. 978-0-7864-3416-9. 164-5. Glasgow 1901.