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| c. 1450 |
| | The massive architecture of the Incas, consisting of finely dressed irregular blocks of stone, becomes a feature of Cuzco | |
| | Masonry in Cuzco Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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| c. 1500 |
| | Even the remote city of Machu Picchu, on its peak above the jungle, is built in the massively precise Inca style of masonry | |
| | Machu Picchu Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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| 1770 |
| | 27-year-old Thomas Jefferson begins constructing a mansion on a hilltop in Charlottesville, calling it Monticello ('little mountain') | |
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| 1800 |
| | US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone | |
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| 1881 |
| | The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership | |
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| 1901 |
| | Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses | |
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| 1904 |
| | US architect Louis Sullivan completes the Schlesinger & Meyer Store (later known as the Carson, Pirie & Scott Store) in Chicago | |
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| 1906 |
| | Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago | |
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| 1911 |
| | Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White | |
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| 1911 |
| | Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin, as his own home and studio, near Bear Run in Wisconsin | |
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