1898 in architecture
# 1898 in architecture

The year 1898 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* St. Paul Building in New York City is completed as one of the tallest buildings in the world at this time.
* Compton Hill Water Tower in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Harvey Ellis, is built.
* San Francisco Ferry Building, designed by A. Page Brown, is completed.
* The Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia is completed.
* The British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, designed by Francis Rattenbury, are opened.
* The Lubyanka Building (headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company) in Moscow is built.
* Arts and Crafts movement architect Charles Voysey designs the country houses Broad Leys and Moor Crag overlooking Windermere in the Lake District of England (completed 1900).
* Edwin Lutyens designs Goddards rest home in Abinger, England (completed 1900).
* Construction of Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico, designed by Jesús Hernández Segura, is begun.
* The New Synagogue of Strasbourg is inaugurated.
* Watts Cemetery Chapel in Compton, Surrey, England, designed by Mary Seton Watts, is completed.

## Events

* To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform is published by Ebenezer Howard, calling for the creation of garden cities.
* York and Sawyer architectural practice established in New York City.

## Awards

* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – George Aitchison.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Léon Chifflot.

## Births

* February 3 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designer, sculptor and painter (died 1976)
* February 19 – Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Danish architect and urban planner (died 1990)
* March 4 – Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (died 1975)
* July 15 – William Strudwick Arrasmith, American architect, designer of Greyhound bus stations (died 1965)
* September 20 – Elisabeth Scott, English architect, designer of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon (died 1972)
* October 4 – Jo van den Broek, Dutch architect (died 1978)
* Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (died 1983)

## Deaths

* August 3
   * John Thomas Emmett, English architect (born 1823)
   * Charles Garnier, French architect (born 1825)
* September 28 – Thomas Fuller, Canadian architect (born 1823)
