1929 - Architecture, Real Estate

Architecture, Real Estate

Pittsburgh's 37-story Grant Building opens February 1, dwarfing the 22-story Oliver Building of 1910. An airplane beacon at its top spells out the city's name in Morse code.

Atlantic City, N.J., opens an $8 million Convention Hall on the Boardwalk; its arena can seat 41,000.

Prague's Cathedral of St. Vitus is completed after 585 years of construction.

The Tugendhat house at Brno in Czechoslovakia is completed to designs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, now 43, and his mistress Lilly Reich, 44.

Xanadu is completed 80 miles east of Havana, Cuba, for Irenée du Pont, 52, with high wood-beamed ceilings, seven bedrooms, and a nine-hole golf course on a 450-acre estate near Varadero Beach.

New York architect Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings dies after an appendectomy at Mineola, N.Y., October 22 at age 69.