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1910 In Architecture
The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * January 21 – Architect Adolf Loos delivers the lecture ''Ornament and Crime'' in Vienna. * April 27 – Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto ''Contro Venezia passatista'' ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco. * Mary Colter is appointed full-time architect for the Fred Harvey Company in the United States. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * January 22 – Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Fawcett and Ashworth. * February – Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, England, designed by Edward Doran Webb. * May 11 – Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C., designed by Paul Philippe Cret and Albert Kelsey. * June – Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan. * July 31 – Split Rock Lighthouse, Minnesota, designed by Ralph Russell Tinkham. * August 5 – Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 21
Events Pre-1600 * 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa. * 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. * 1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards, the French king leads an anti-Protestant procession through Paris. 1601–1900 * 1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm. * 1749 – The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754. * 1774 – Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. * 1789 – The first American novel, ''The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 31
Events Pre-1600 *30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. * 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: Sixth day of the seventh month of the first year of the Ten'o (天応) era). *1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII. *1201 – Attempted usurpation by John Komnenos the Fat for the throne of Alexios III Angelos. * 1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: A Franco-Scottish army is defeated by the Anglo-Burgundians at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. *1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France. *1492 – All remaining Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect. * 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia (Republic of Dagestan) to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku, along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku Puppet Theatre
The Baku Puppet Theatre (formally Azerbaijan State Puppet Theatre named after Abdulla Shaig , az, Abdulla Şaiq adına Azərbaycan Dövlət Kukla Teatrı) is located on Neftchiler Avenue of Baku. It was built in 1910 by Polish architect Józef Płoszko, initially as the French Renaissance architecture, French Renaissance "Phenomenon" movie theater.(Russian)Ш.С. Фатуллаев. Градостроительство и архитектура Азербайджана XIX-начала XX века, Ленинград, 1986, с. 229 The puppets vary in size from a few centimetres to double the size of a human. Overview The theatre building was erected at the Baku Boulevard when there was no greenery yet. The exhaust ventilation system was superseded by forced ventilation. When the movie theater was opened to the public in June 1910, its administration advertised the features of full air change, occurring every 15 minutes and special ozonator. Auditorium hall of the movie theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Kelsey
Albert Warren Kelsey, Jr. (April 26, 1870 – May 6, 1950) was an American architect, who designed in a number of Revivalist styles. Biography He was born in 1870 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of economist and writer A. Warren Kelsey and novelist Jeanette Garr Washburn. His father had been a close friend of the artist Winslow Homer, and his mother was the daughter of Wisconsin Governor Cadwallader C. Washburn. The family moved to the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Albert Jr. grew up and went to school. He apprenticed with architects Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr. and Cope and Stewardson, and participated in the drafting atelier of the T-Square Club of Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Architecture in 1895, and won the 1896 University of Pennsylvania Traveling Scholarship (now the Stewardson Traveling Scholarship). He studied town planning abroad, and returned an ardent supporter of civic improvement, carry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Philippe Cret
Paul Philippe Cret (October 23, 1876 – September 8, 1945) was a French-born Philadelphia architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he taught at a design studio in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Biography Born in Lyon, France, Cret was educated at that city's École des Beaux-Arts, then in Paris, where he studied at the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal. He came to the United States in 1903 to teach at the University of Pennsylvania. Although settled in America, he happened to be in France at the outbreak of World War I. He enlisted and remained in the French army for the duration, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and made an officer in the Legion of Honor. Cret's practice in America began in 1907. His first major commission, designed with Albert Kelsey, was the Pan American Union Building (the headquarters of what is now the Organization of American States) in Washington DC (1908–10), a breakthrough that led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington, D
Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States Washington may also refer to: Places England * Washington, Tyne and Wear, a town in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough ** Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of the family of George Washington * Washington, West Sussex, a village and civil parish Greenland * Cape Washington, Greenland * Washington Land Philippines *New Washington, Aklan, a municipality *Washington, a barangay in Catarman, Northern Samar *Washington, a barangay in Escalante, Negros Occidental *Washington, a barangay in San Jacinto, Masbate *Washington, a barangay in Surigao City United States * Washington, Wisconsin (other) * Fort Washington (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan American Union Building
The Pan American Union Building is the headquarters for the Organization of American States. It is located at 17th Street N.W. between C Street N.W. and Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. History On the former site of the John Peter Van Ness Mansion. The cornerstone was laid on May 11, 1908, by Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and Andrew Carnegie, and the building was dedicated on April 26, 1910. In 1919, the initial meeting of the International Labour Organization was held in the building. Between 1921 and 1922, the building was used for committee and subcommittee hearings throughout the Washington Naval Conference while closely guarded by marines with fixed bayonets. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, and was designated a National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 11
Events 1601–1900 *1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons. *1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains, route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement. *1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. *1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California. *1889 – An Wham Paymaster robbery, attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medal of Honor, Medals of Honor. *1894 – Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a Pullman Strike, wildcat strike. 1901–present *1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention, Buenos Aires copyright treaty. *1970 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Doran Webb
Edward Doran Webb (1864–1931) was a British church architecture, ecclesiastical architect. Based in Wiltshire, he worked on several churches including at St Osmund's Church, Salisbury, Salisbury, Finchley, Holy Rood Church, Swindon, Swindon and Aldermaston. Webb also designed the Birmingham Oratory. He had strong connections to the University of Cambridge, and designed a large country stone house for a senior member of St John's College, Cambridge, St John's College in the west of the city before retiring; the limestone house is in the stately Queen Anne style architecture, Queen Anne style. Webb was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and this affiliation may be the source of his connection to scholars at the University of Cambridge. He was married to Elsie Janet Charlton on 30 January 1899 and lived at Gaston Manor in Tisbury, Wiltshire almost until the end of his life. References British ecclesiastical architects 1931 deaths 1864 births Fellows of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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