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1909 in architecture
Summary
The year
1909 in architecture
involved some significant events.
List of years in architecture
(
table
)
…
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Buildings and structures
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
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+...
Buildings and structures
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Buildings
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Hjorthagen Church
in
Stockholm
, Sweden
Wiesen Viaduct
on the
Rhaetian Railway
in Switzerland
The
Opernhaus Chemnitz
in Germany
February 28
– The
Praetorian Building
in
Dallas, Texas
, USA, opens to visitors.
March 15
–
Selfridges, Oxford Street
, London department store, designed by American architect
Daniel Burnham
, opens.
[1]
[2]
March 25
–
Hjorthagen Church
in
Stockholm
, Sweden, opens.
March 30
–
Queensboro Bridge
in New York City, designed by
Gustav Lindenthal
in collaboration with
Leffert L. Buck
and
Henry Hornbostel
, opens.
April 25
– A bomb blast damages
St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans)
.
May 1
– Opening of the
International Exhibition of the East of France
, held in
Nancy
until October 31. Many architects of the
École de Nancy
, including
Lucien Weissenburger
,
Émile André
, Émile Toussaint, Louis Marchal, Paul Charbonnier,
Eugène Vallin
, and others design the pavilions for the exhibition.
May 2
–
St. Joseph, Wedding
, Berlin, designed by Friar Wilhelm Rincklake, revised by Wilhelm Frydag, consecrated.
July 1
–
Wiesen Viaduct
on the
Rhaetian Railway
in Switzerland, designed by Henning Friedrich, opens.
July 14
–
Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro)
opens.
October 10
–
Fades viaduct
in France opens.
October –
United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House (Spokane, Washington)
, designed under the supervision of
James Knox Taylor
, opens.
November 8
–
Boston Opera House
in the United States opens.
November 25
–
Bucharest Russian Church
sanctified.
Catholic
Cathedral of the Madeleine
in
Salt Lake City
, Utah, designed by
Carl M. Neuhausen
and Bernard O. Mecklenburg, completed.
Basílica del Voto Nacional
in
Quito
,
Ecuador
, designed by Emilio Tarlier, completed.
Holy Myrrhbearers Cathedral
in
Baku
, Azerbaijan, built.
St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church
in
Kyiv
, completed by
Władysław Horodecki
to a design of Stanisław Wołowski, consecrated.
Saint-Édouard Church
in
Montreal
, Quebec, designed by Joseph-Ovide Turgeon, completed.
Novi Sad Synagogue
in Serbia, designed by Baumhorn Lipót, completed.
Façade of
San Silvestro, Venice
, designed by Giuseppe Sicher, completed.
Grand Post Office
in
Istanbul
, Turkey, designed by
Vedat Tek
, completed.
United States Post Offices in New York State at
Corning
,
Ithaca
and
Little Falls
, designed under the supervision of
James Knox Taylor
, completed.
Opernhaus Chemnitz
in Germany, designed by Richard Möbius, completed.
Higgins Building
in
Los Angeles
completed.
Corinthian Hall
(
Robert A. Long
House) in
Kansas City, Missouri
, designed by Henry Hoit of
Hoit, Price and Barnes
, completed.
Construction work begins on the
Robie House
, designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright
, in
Hyde Park
,
Chicago
.
Construction work begins on
Rodmarton Manor
, designed by
Ernest Barnsley
, in Gloucestershire, England.
Awards
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AIA Gold Medal
–
Charles Follen McKim
.
RIBA
Royal Gold Medal
–
Arthur John Evans
.
Grand Prix de Rome
, architecture: Maurice Boutterin.
Births
edit
March 16
–
Ernesto Nathan Rogers
, Italian architect, writer and educator (died
1969
)
April 25
–
William Pereira
, American architect (died
1985
)
May 9
–
Gordon Bunshaft
, American architect (died
1990
)
October 25
–
Moshe Mayer
, Romanian Jewish architect (died
1993
)
Genia Averbuch
, Russian Jewish architect (died
1977
)
Deaths
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September 14
–
Charles Follen McKim
, American Beaux-Arts architect (born
1847
)
September 18
–
Auguste Choisy
, French architectural historian (born
1841
)
November 9
–
Thomas Worthington
, English architect associated with public buildings in Manchester (born
1826
)
November 24
–
James Ebenezer Saunders
, English architecture (born 1829/30)
References
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^
"Selfridges marks 100th birthday".
BBC
. 15 March 2009
. Retrieved
11 June
2018
.
^
Lockyer, Daphne (15 December 2012). "
'Mr Selfridge': It's 'Downton Abbey' with tills..."
The Telegraph
. Retrieved
11 June
2018
.