The year 1901 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• Federal Court House and Post office for the Upper Midwest, now the "Landmark Center", Saint Paul, Minnesota by Willoughby J. Edbrooke is completed.
• Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is completed, the world's tallest masonry building.
• The Town Hall of Słupsk, Poland, was built.
• Union Station in Washington, DC, designed by Daniel Burnham and Peirce Anderson is commissioned.
• Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, designed by Nikola Tesla and Stanford White is begun.
• Ward W. Willits House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, designed by C. Harrison Townsend is completed.
• The Génin-Louis Grain Shop in Nancy, designed by Henry Gutton and his nephew Henri Gutton, is built.
• The Vaxelaire Department Store in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Eugène Vallin, is completed.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• February 20 - Louis Kahn (died 1974)

Deaths