1909 in architecture

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The year 1909 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures[]

Buildings[]

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, , , , Eugène Vallin, and others design the pavilions for the exhibition.
• 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[]

• AIA Gold Medal – Charles Follen McKim.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Arthur John Evans.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Maurice Boutterin.

Births[]

• 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[]

• 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)

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