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1881
 
    
The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership       
1901
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses       
1904
 
   
US architect Louis Sullivan completes the Schlesinger & Meyer Store (later known as the Carson, Pirie & Scott Store) in Chicago      
1906
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago       
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