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Overview of the events of 1900 in architecture
The year 1900 in architecture involved some significant events.
The
Paris Métro in France
Musée d'Orsay in
Paris, France
- May 30 —
Daniel Burnham's
Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library and Soldiers and Sailors Monument are dedicated together in
Kenosha, Wisconsin
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- July 19 – The
Paris Métro opens, with
entrances designed by
Hector Guimard in 1899.
- November 11 – Church of
Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino in Rome, designed by Abbot
Hildebrand de Hemptinne, is consecrated.
-
Antoni Gaudí begins work on the
Parc Güell, which he works on for the next fourteen years.
- The Gare d'Orsay, the modern-day
Musée d'Orsay, is built in
Paris by
Victor Laloux.
- The
Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower at the
University of Birmingham,
England, is completed.
- The
Administration Building of
Southwestern University,
Georgetown, Texas, designed by physicist and University President
Robert Stewart Hyer, is completed.
- The
OXO Tower in
London, England, is completed.
- The Co-Operative Wholesale Society warehouse, the modern-day Malmaison Hotel, on the
Quayside,
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, designed by T. G. Guerrite for
Louis Gustave Mouchel on the principles of
François Hennebique with F. E. L. Harris as CWS architect, is completed.
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- The
Imprimerie Royer (Royer Printing House) in
Nancy, France, designed by
Lucien Weissenburger, is completed.
-
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn, designed by Mikhail Preobrazhensky, is completed.
-
Dohodno Zdanie,
Rousse,
Bulgaria.
-
Villa Schutzenberger in
Strasbourg, France, is completed.
-
Kinloch Castle on the isle of
Rùm, Scotland, designed by Leeming & Leeming, is completed.
-
Bullough Mausoleum on the isle of
Rùm, Scotland, built (approximate date).
-
Victoria Theatre, Salford, England opens.
- The Orchard,
Chorleywood, England, a house designed by
C. F. A. Voysey for himself, is completed.
William White