page_title: 1908 in architecture
section_title: Buildings completed
hierarchical_section_title: 1908 in architecture / Buildings and structures / Buildings completed
caption_attribution_description: The Gamble House, Pasadena, California, by Charles and Henry Greene, 1908 (photo: 2005, after restoration)
context_page_description: The year 1908 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
context_section_description: The Gamble House in Pasadena, California, designed by Henry Mather Greene and Charles Sumner Greene.
  British Medical Association Building, London, designed by Charles Holden with sculptures by Jacob Epstein, is completed.
  St. Andrew's United Church in Cairo, Egypt.
  St. Patrick's Church, Toronto, Canada, designed by Arthur W. Holmes.
  Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk, Ostend, Belgium, designed by Louis Delacenserie.
  Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, United States, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
  Old Colony Club on Madison Avenue in New York City, designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White.
  Singer Building in New York City, designed by Ernest Flagg. It is the world's tallest building for a year. Demolished 1968.
caption: Gamble House
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