1753 in architecture

The year 1753 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Horse Guards in London, designed by William Kent and John Vardy, is completed.^[1]
• State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton, is completed.
• New Branicki Palace, Warsaw, designed by Johann Sigmund Deybel, is completed.
• First stage of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival 'castle' at Strawberry Hill House near London is completed.
• Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, designed by Jacob Fortling for himself, is completed.
• Carlyle House, Alexandria, Virginia, is completed.
• Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is opened.
• Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is opened.
• Confidencen theatre in Ulriksdal Palace, Sweden, with interior completed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is opened.
• Teatro Carignano in Turin, designed by Benedetto Alfieri, is opened.
• Church of Santa Caterina (Livorno), designed by Giovanni Del Fantasia, is opened.
• New church of San Geremia in Venice, designed by Carlo Corbellini, is built.
• Sunehri Masjid, Lahore ('Golden Mosque'), designed by Nawab Syed Bhikari Khan, is built.
• Outer Pagoda of Monk Wansong in Beijing is built.
• Barakoni church in Georgia is commissioned from Avtandil Shulavreli.

Births

• January 6 – Samuel Pepys Cockerell, English architect (died 1827)
• September 10 – John Soane, English architect (died 1837)
• Henry A. Baker, Irish architect (died 1836)
• Laurynas Gucevičius, Lithuanian architect (died 1798)

Deaths

• February 9 – Carl Hårleman, Swedish architect (born 1700)
• August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German baroque architect (born 1687)
• December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English Palladian architect and politician (born 1694)

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