The Empire line is incorporated into the S-curve silhouette in women's dresses, which are still one piece but now have slightly raised waistlines and long, sweeping trains.

Women's hats keep getting bigger, with wider brims; these large hats require the longest hatpins in history.

U.S. automobile production reaches 127,731. The ratio of Americans to automobiles drops from one car for every ninety-five hundred people to one for every two hundred people.

The Hudson Fulton Exhibition of American furniture opens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Charles and Henry Greene establish a trend in American architectural regionalism with the Gamble House in Pasadena, California.

The world's tallest building (until 1913), the forty-two-story Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower, is completed in New York City by Napoleon Le Brun and Sons.

Frank Lloyd Wright completes the Frederick G. Robie House, for which he even designs the furniture, in Chicago. Wright...