1768 in architecture

The year 1768 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

• Work begins on Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson.
• Duchal House, Scotland, extended.
• In Bath, England, St James' Church is designed by John Palmer of Bath (between 1768-1769).
• Potseluev Bridge, St Petersburg, Russia, reconstructed to accommodate horse traffic.
• Architects Domenico Merlini and Szymon Bogumił Zug are ennobled in Poland.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• Nathaniel Hill Brick House, Montgomery, New York.
• The Paragon, Bath, England, designed by Thomas Warr Attwood.
• Petit Trianon, Versailles, France, originally designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel by the order of King Louis XV for his long-term mistress, Madame de Pompadour, but used by Queen Marie Antoinette.
• Blue Mosque, Yerevan.
• Façade of Theatine Church, Munich, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is completed by his son.
• Reconstruction of Puerta del Sol in Madrid and construction of (post office) there, both begun by Ventura Rodríguez, are completed by Jaime Marquet.

Births

• April 12 – John Sanders, architect, first pupil of Sir John Soane (died 1826)
• May 11 – David Hamilton, Glasgow architect (died 1843)

Deaths

• February 8 – George Dance the Elder, City of London surveyor and architect (born 1695)
• March 11 – Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Sicilian Baroque architect (born 1702)
• April 14 – François de Cuvilliés, Walloon-born Bavarian architect (born 1695)

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