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1911
 
    
Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White       
1911
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin, as his own home and studio, near Bear Run in Wisconsin       
1913
 
   
A new and spectacular Grand Central Station opens in New York, designed by Charles Reed and Alan Stern      
1913
 
    
The Woolworth Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, a distinction it retains until 1930       
1913
 
    
A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra       
1930
 
    
The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year       
1931
 
    
President Hoover switches on the lights to inaugurate the world's new tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building in New York       
1935
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann       
c. 1936
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright experiments with prefabrication for low-cost housing in a style he calls Usonian (meaning 'in the US style')       
1937
 
    
US architect Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin West in Arizona as his winter home and studio