1743 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Construction begins on the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen, in Bavaria, designed by Johann Balthasar Neumann.
• Dresden Frauenkirche, in Dresden, Germany, designed by George Bähr, is completed.
• Eltzer Hof in Mainz completed
• September 29 – Church of the Gesuati on the Giudecca canal in Venice, designed by Giorgio Massari in 1724, is consecrated.

Births

• April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, American President and amateur architect (died 1826)

Deaths

• May 22 – Thomas Archer, English Baroque architect (born 1668)

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