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The year 1897 in architecture involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Buildings 2 Events 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Buildings

• Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is begun.
• The Flatiron Building of Atlanta, Georgia, United States is completed 5 years before New York's more famous structure.
• Battenberg Mausoleum, Sofia is completed.
• On May 1, the Tennessee Centennial Exposition opened in Nashville, with a temporary pyramid for Memphis, TN and a copy of the Parthenon, which was later rebuilt of permanent materials in the 1920s.
• The Teatro Massimo was built in Palermo, the largest Opera Theatre in Italy, the 3° in Europe

[edit] Events

• Vienna Secession group founded by Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann among others.

[edit] Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Pierre Cuypers.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

[edit] Births

• January 23 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (died 2000)
• April 18 - Charles N. Agree (died 1982)

[edit] Deaths