1753 in architecture

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Overview of the events of 1753 in architecture

List of years in architecture

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The year 1753 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1753

### Buildings

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Horse Guards, London Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, Denmark

* 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

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* 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

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* 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)

## References

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1. ^ "Samuel Scott (1702-72) - The Horse Guards". www.royalcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2018.

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