1757 in architecture

List of years in architecture (table)
... 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 ... 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 ... 1761 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 1767 ...
Buildings and structures Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +...

The year 1757 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

Frederiks Hospital (Copenhagen)

Buildings

• Frederiks Hospital, Copenhagen, is opened.
• Middlesex Hospital, London, is opened.
• Vorontsov Palace (Saint Petersburg), designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, is completed.
• Gammel Holtegård near Copenhagen is completed by architect Lauritz de Thurah as a house for himself.
• Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac in Aix-en-Provence is completed with a façade designed by Georges Vallon.
• Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire, England, a Palladian house attributed to the polymath Thomas Wright, is completed.^[1]
• Swinfen Hall in Staffordshire, England, designed by Benjamin Wyatt, is built.
• Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, Negoslavci in Croatia is completed.
• Wolvendaal Church in Colombo (Dutch Ceylon) is completed.
• Ossian's Hall of Mirrors in Scotland, a folly, is built.

Vorontsov Palace (Saint Petersburg)

Publications

• William Chambers - Designs of Chinese Buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils: to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c. (London)

Births

• January 16 - Samuel McIntire, American architect (died 1811)
• May 4 - Manuel Tolsá, Spanish architect and sculptor workiing in Mexico (died 1816)
• August 9 - Thomas Telford, British civil engineer (died 1834)

Deaths

• March 12 - Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and painter (born 1696)

References

1. Vitruvius Britannicus.