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Overview of the events of 1948 in architecture
The year 1948 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
V. C. Morris Gift Shop - Frank Lloyd Wright's prototype for the Guggenheim Museum
- September 10 - The Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States is dedicated.
- December - Carswell House in Newark, Delaware, by Edward Durell Stone, completed.
- Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado completed.
- V. C. Morris Gift Shop (later, Xanadu Gallery) in San Francisco, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Mampong Teacher's Training College and Prempeh College, Kumasi, both in Ghana, by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew.
- Equitable Building (Portland, Oregon), by Pietro Belluschi, completed.
- Holy Family Cathedral (Anchorage, Alaska), by Augustine A. Porreca, is completed.
- Calvert Manor apartment building in Arlington, Virginia, by Mihran Mesrobian, built.
- Bachman House in Chicago, remodeling by Bruce Goff, completed.
- Ledbetter House in Norman, Oklahoma, by Bruce Goff, completed.
- Elkay Apartments in Los Angeles, California, by Richard Neutra, built.
- Herman T. Mossberg Residence in South Bend, Indiana, by Frank Lloyd Wright, built.
- Herbert and Katherine Jacobs Second House in Madison, Wisconsin, by Frank Lloyd Wright, completed.
- Jack Lamberson House in Oskaloosa, Iowa, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built.
- Haines Shoe House in Hallam, Pennsylvania, built.
Equitable Building (Portland, Oregon)
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