The twenty-story, steel-frame Fuller Building, nicknamed the "Flatiron Building" because of its shape, is completed in New York City by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham.

New York architect Stanford White completes Rosecliff, the Newport, Rhode Island, mansion of Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs.

Rhode Island, mansion of Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. The architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings completes Whitehall, the seventy-three-room, $2.5 million Spanish-inspired Palm Beach, Florida, mansion of Florida East Coast Railway magnate Henry M. Flagler.

The Stanley brothers switch their Locomobile from steam to gasoline.

Ernest Coxhead completes the Wayburn House in San Francisco.

The Studebaker electric car and the Marmon and Overland gasolinepowered cars are introduced.

4 Mar.

The American Automobile Association is formed to give a national voice to the growing number of local auto clubs. By the end of the decade AAA will have twenty-five thousand members in more than thirty states.