Burial mounds feature in the Ohio valley, built first in the Adena culture and then by Hopewell tribes

27-year-old Thomas Jefferson begins constructing a mansion on a hilltop in Charlottesville, calling it Monticello ('little mountain')

US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone

The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership

Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses

US architect Louis Sullivan completes the Schlesinger & Meyer Store (later known as the Carson, Pirie & Scott Store) in Chicago

Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago

Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White

Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin, as his own home and studio, near Bear Run in Wisconsin

A new and spectacular Grand Central Station opens in New York, designed by Charles Reed and Alan Stern

The Woolworth Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, a distinction it retains until 1930

The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year

President Hoover switches on the lights to inaugurate the world's new tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building in New York

Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann

Frank Lloyd Wright experiments with prefabrication for low-cost housing in a style he calls Usonian (meaning 'in the US style')

US architect Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin West in Arizona as his winter home and studio

US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Culture of Cities

US architect Philip Johnson builds the Glass House in Connecticut in the International Style

US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven

Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete a skyscraper for Seagram in New York

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum opens in New York after seventeen years of work on the project

Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport

Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki

The US pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal is a geodesic dome by the architect Buckminster Fuller

The Sears Tower opens in Chicago, displacing the Empire State as the tallest building in the world