- 1897 in architecture
The year 1897 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
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Glasgow School of Art , designed byCharles Rennie Mackintosh is begun.
* The Flatiron Building ofAtlanta , Georgia,United States is completed 5 years beforeNew York 's more famous structure.
*Battenberg Mausoleum ,Sofia is completed.
* OnMay 1 , theTennessee Centennial Exposition opened inNashville , with a temporary pyramid forMemphis, TN and a copy of theParthenon , which was later rebuilt of permanent materials in the1920s .
* TheTeatro Massimo was built inPalermo , the largest Opera Theatre in Italy, the 3° in EuropeEvents
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Vienna Secession group founded byOtto Wagner ,Joseph Maria Olbrich andJosef Hoffmann among others.Awards
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Royal Gold Medal -Pierre Cuypers .
*Grand Prix de Rome , architecture: (unknown).Births
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January 23 -Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (died 2000)
*April 18 -Charles N. Agree (died 1982)Deaths
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