# 1907 in architecture

The year 1907 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* January – Plans for St David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers at Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, are drawn up by the Glasgow School architect George Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he is a member. The hotel closes in 2008, and planning permission for demolition is approved in 2009.
* May 18 – The foundation stone of Bedford School chapel in England, designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
* September 29 – The foundation stone of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
* October 6 – Deutscher Werkbund is founded by Hermann Muthesius in Munich.
* City plan for Barcelona by Léon Jaussely officially adopted.
* District plan for Highland Park, Texas, by Wilbur David Cook and George Kessler drawn up.
* English designer C. R. Ashbee is commissioned to build the Villa San Giorgio in Taormina, Sicily.

## Buildings and structures
### Buildings completed

* April 13 – Old New York Evening Post Building at 20 Vesey Street on Manhattan, designed in Art Nouveau style by Robert D. Kohn, opened.
* October 8 – Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna, designed by Otto Wagner.
* Great Mosque of Djenné in French Sudan.
* Port of Liverpool Building in Liverpool, England, designed by Sir Arnold Thornely.
* Tampere Cathedral, Finland, designed by Lars Sonck.
* Poti Cathedral in Georgia within the Russian Empire, designed by Alexander Zelenko and Robert Marfeld and constructed on the Hennebique system.
* St Matthew's Church, Paisley in Scotland, designed by W. D. McLennan.
* St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Krebs, Oklahoma).
* Rebuilt Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg, in Alsace-Lorraine, designed by Fritz Beblo.
* The Magasins Réunis, a large department store in Nancy, France, by Lucien Weissenburger (after seventeen years of work).
* Villa Fruhinsholz in Nancy, France, designed by Léon Cayotte.
* Stadttheater Barmen in Wuppertal and Stadttheater Düren, both designed by Carl Moritz in Germany.
* North Hall, the fifth dormitory on the quad at Vassar College, USA. The building is renamed Jewett Hall in 1912 in honor of the College's first president, Milo P. Jewett.
* Rebuilt Basel SBB railway station in Switzerland, designed by Emil Faesch and Emmanuel La Roche.

## Awards

* AIA Gold Medal – Aston Webb.
* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Belcher.

## Births

* June 17 – Charles Eames, American designer (died 1978)
* July 7 – Ben-Ami Shulman, Israeli architect (died 1986)
* August 13
** J. M. Richards, English architectural writer (died 1992)
** Basil Spence, Indian-born British architect (died 1976)
* December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (died 2012)
* Walter Segal, German-born architect, pioneer of self-build methods (died 1985)

## Deaths

* January 24 – Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish historicist architect (born 1826)
* May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1830)
* June 14 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect credited with building the first skyscraper (born 1832)
* October 21 – George Frederick Bodley, English architect (born 1827)
* November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German Jewish historicist architect (born 1854)