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. *

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in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by

Edmund Woolley Edmund Woolley (16951771) was an English-born American architect and master carpenter, best known for building Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Biography Woolley was born in England around 1695, and emigrated to th ...

and Andrew Hamilton, is completed. * New

Branicki Palace, Warsaw The Branicki Palace ( pl, Pałac Branickich ) is an 18th-century magnate's mansion in Warsaw, Poland. It is located at the junction of ''Podwale'' and ''Miodowa'' Streets. History The Palace is one of three with the same name in Warsaw. This part ...

, designed by Johann Sigmund Deybel, is completed. * First stage of

Horace Walpole Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician. He had Strawb ...

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

'castle' at Strawberry Hill House near London is completed. *

Kastrupgård Kastrupgård is a former manor house in Kastrup, a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. Dating from the mid 18th century, it is now a museum housing the Kastrupgård Collection (''Kastrupgårdsamlingen'') of modern art, which is owned and operated by ...

in Copenhagen, designed by

Jacob Fortling Jacob Fortling (23 December 1711 – 16 July 1761) was a German-Danish sculptor, architect and industrialist, described as one of the most industrious people in the Denmark of his day. He came to Denmark at age 18 and embarked on a successful c ...

for himself, is completed. * Carlyle House, Alexandria, Virginia, is completed. *

Cuvilliés Theatre The Cuvilliés Theatre (german: link=no, Cuvilliés-Theater) or Old Residence Theatre (''Altes Residenztheater'') is the former court theatre of the Residenz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. History Elector of Bavaria Maximilian III Joseph (reg. ...

in the

Munich Residenz The Residenz (, ''Residence'') in central Munich is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. The Residenz is the largest city palace in Germany and is today open to visitors for its architecture, room decorations, and displ ...

, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is opened. * Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in

Schwetzingen Palace Schwetzingen Palace is a schloss in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Schwetzingen was the summer residence of the Electors Palatine Charles III Philip and Charles IV Theodore (of the House of Wittelsbach). It is situated in Schwetzingen ...

, Baden-Württemberg, designed by

Nicolas de Pigage Nicolas de Pigage (3 August 1723 – 30 July 1796) was a French builder. Pigage was born in Lunéville. His father was a stonemason. In 1743 he began his studies at the École Militaire, changing to the Académie Royale d'Architecture after ...

, 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) Santa Caterina da Siena is a Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church in the district Venezia Nuova central Livorno, region of Tuscany, Italy. It stands in front of the Piazza dei Domenicani. The church is notable for its tall octagonal dome an ...

, designed by Giovanni Del Fantasia, is opened. * New church of

San Geremia San Geremia is a church in Venice, northern Italy, located in the ''sestiere'' of Cannaregio. The apse of the church faces the Grand Canal (Venice), between the Palazzo Labia and the Palazzo Flangini, Venice, Palazzo Flangini. The edifice is popul ...

in Venice, designed by Carlo Corbellini, is built. *

Sunehri Masjid, Lahore The Sunheri Mosque ( ur, , lit=Golden Mosque), also known as the Talai Mosque, is a late Mughal architecture-era mosque in the Walled City of Lahore, capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab. Location Sunehri Mosque is located in the Wall ...

('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 Events January–March * January 5 – The first regatta in Australia is held, taking place on Tasmania (called at the time ''Van Diemen's Land''), on the River Derwent at Hobart. * January 15 – Furman University, founded in 1826, b ...

) * September 10 – John Soane, English architect (died

1837 Events January–March * January 1 – The destructive Galilee earthquake causes 6,000–7,000 casualties in Ottoman Syria. * January 26 – Michigan becomes the 26th state admitted to the United States. * February – Charles Dickens's ...

) *

Henry A. Baker Henry Aaron Baker (1753–1836), was an Irish architect. Baker was a student from 1777 to 1779 at the Dublin Society's School of Architectural Drawing under Thomas Ivory. Following Ivory's death, Baker was a pupil of James Gandon, 'and acted as ...

, Irish architect (died

1836 Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, r ...

) * Laurynas Gucevičius, Lithuanian architect (died

1798 Events January–June * January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable parts. * January 4 – Constantine Hangerli enters Bucharest, as Prince of Wa ...

)

Deaths

* February 9 –

Carl Hårleman Baron Carl Hårleman (27 August 1700 – 9 February 1753) was a Swedish architect. Biography Hårleman was born in Stockholm, son of the garden architect and head of the royal parks and gardens Johan Hårleman, who had been ennobled in 1698. ...

, Swedish architect (born

1700 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 19), where then Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 11 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 17 ...

) * August 19 –

Balthasar Neumann Johann Balthasar Neumann (; 27 January 1687 (?) – 19 August 1753), usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Ita ...

, German baroque architect (born

1687 Events January–March * January 3 – With the end of latest of the Savoyard–Waldensian wars in the Duchy of Savoy between the Savoyard government and Protestant Italians known as the Waldensians, Victor Amadeus III of Sardi ...

) * December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English Palladian architect and politician (born

1694 Events January–March * January 16 – Francesco Morosini, the Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of Negropont from the ...

)

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