1897 in architecture

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See also: 1896 in architecture, other events of 1897, 1898 in architecture and the architecture timeline.

Contents 1 Buildings 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths

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.

Events

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

Births

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

Deaths