1776 in architecture

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Overview of the events of 1776 in architecture

List of years in architecture

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The year 1776 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1776

### Buildings

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City Hall, Weesp

* The Landhaus (Dresden), designed by Friedrich August Krubsacius, is completed.
* City Hall, Weesp in the Netherlands, designed by Jacob Otten Husly with Leendert Viervant the Younger, is completed.
* Rauma Old Town Hall in Finland, designed by Christian Friedrich Schröder, is built.
* Hôtel du Châtelet town house in Paris, designed by Mathurin Cherpitel, is built.
* Château Malou near Brussels in the Austrian Netherlands is built.
* Curtea Nouă palace in Bucharest, Principality of Wallachia, is completed.
* New Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, England, designed by James Paine, is built to replace the ruined Wardour Castle.
* Woolverstone Hall in Suffolk, England, designed by John Johnson, is built.
* The Wenyuan Chamber, an imperial library in the Forbidden City of Beijing, is built.
* The Palazzi di S. Apollinare in Rome is extended by Pietro Camporese il Vecchio and Pasquale Belli.
* The church of San Barnaba, Venice, is reconstructed by Lorenzo Boschetti.
* The Villa del Poggio Imperiale near Florence in Tuscany is remodelled by Gaspare Paoletti.
* 11–15 Portman Square, London, designed by James Wyatt, are completed.
* The Dobbin House Tavern in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is built and is later used as a home on the Underground Railroad.
* New Aray Bridge on Inveraray Castle estate in Scotland, designed by Robert Mylne, is completed.[1]

## Births

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* June 8 – Thomas Rickman, English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841)
* June 11 – James Gillespie Graham, Scottish architect (died 1855)
* August 22 – Carlo Amati, Italian architect (died 1852)

## Deaths

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* June 4 – Johann Gottfried Rosenberg, German-Danish rococo architect (born 1709)

## References

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1. ^ "Inveraray Castle Estate, Aray Bridge". Canmore. Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2007. Retrieved 2016-01-24.

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