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The year 1776 in architecture involved some significant events.
* 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.
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Buildings and structures
Buildings
* 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
The hôtel du Châtelet is a ''hôtel particulier'', a kind of large townhouse of France, at 127, rue de Grenelle, in the 7th arrondissement, Paris. The building is now the home of the Ministry of Labour and the minister’s official residence.
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town house in Paris, designed by Mathurin Cherpitel, is built.
* Château Malou
The Château Malou ( Dutch: Maloukasteel) is a neoclassical building in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Brussels, Belgium. The Château Malou is situated at an altitude of .
History
The château was built in 1776 in the neoclas ...
near Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
in the Austrian Netherlands is built.
* Curtea Nouă
Curtea Nouă (, ''New Court'') was the residence of the Princes of Wallachia between 1776 and 1812.
Located near the Mihai Vodă Monastery, on Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, it was built between 1775 and 1776 during the rule of Alexander Ypsilantis ...
palace in Bucharest
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, Principality of Wallachia, is completed.
* New Wardour Castle
New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family. The house is of Palladian style, designed by the architect James Paine, with additions by Giacomo Quarenghi, wh ...
in Wiltshire
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, England
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, designed by James Paine, is built to replace the ruined Wardour Castle
Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Salisbury. The castle was built in the 1390s, came into the ...
.
* Woolverstone Hall
Woolverstone Hall is a large country house, now in use as a school and available at times as a function venue, located south of the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It is set in on the banks of the River Orwell. Built in 1776 for William B ...
in Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include L ...
, England, designed by John Johnson, is built.
* The Wenyuan Chamber
The Belvedere of Literary Profundity (; Manchu: ''šu tunggu asari''), Wenyuan Ge or Wenyuan Library is a palace building in the Forbidden City in Beijing.
The hall was an imperial library, and a place for learned discussion. Thus some Grand S ...
, an imperial library in the Forbidden City
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of Beijing
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, is built.
* The Palazzi di S. Apollinare in Rome
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is extended by Pietro Camporese il Vecchio and Pasquale Belli.
* The church of San Barnaba, Venice
The ' is a small Neoclassical-style church in the ' (district) of Dorsoduro in Venice. It is dedicated to the Apostle Saint Barnabas.
History
A church at the site was built in the ninth century, but destroyed by fire in 1105. Rebuilt in 1350, it ...
, is reconstructed by Lorenzo Boschetti.
* The Villa del Poggio Imperiale
Villa del Poggio Imperiale (English: Villa of the Imperial Hill) is a predominantly neoclassical former grand ducal villa in Arcetri, just to the south of Florence in Tuscany, Central Italy. Beginning as a villa of the Baroncelli of Florence, ...
near Florence in Tuscany is remodelled by Gaspare Paoletti Gaspare (also ''Gaspero'', ''Gasperino'' and ''Gasparro'') is an Italian male given name, the literal translation of the English name Casper and Jasper (French Gaspard, Scandinavian Kasper and Jesper).
The name is rare in contemporary times, but ...
.
* 11–15 Portman Square
Portman Square is a garden square in Marylebone, central London, surrounded by elegant townhouses. It was specifically for private housing let on long leases having a ground rent by the Portman Estate, which owns the private communal garden ...
, London, designed by James Wyatt
James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1785 and was its president from 1805 to 1806.
Early life
W ...
, are completed.
* The Dobbin House Tavern in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Gettysburg is home to th ...
, is built and is later used as a home on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...
.
* New Aray Bridge on Inveraray Castle
Inveraray Castle (pronounced or ; Scottish Gaelic ''Caisteal Inbhir Aora'' ) is a country house near Inveraray in the county of Argyll, in western Scotland, on the shore of Loch Fyne, Scotland's longest sea loch. It is one of the earliest e ...
estate in Scotland, designed by Robert Mylne, is completed.
Births
* June 8 –Thomas Rickman
Thomas Rickman (8 June 17764 January 1841) was an English architect and architectural antiquary who was a major figure in the Gothic Revival. He is particularly remembered for his ''Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture'' ...
, English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841
Events
January–March
* January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom, and Qishan of the Qing dynasty, agree to the Convention of Chuenpi.
* January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the i ...
)
* June 11 – James Gillespie Graham
James Gillespie Graham (11 June 1776 – 11 March 1855) was a Scottish architect, prominent in the early 19th century.
Life
Graham was born in Dunblane on 11 June 1776. He was the son of Malcolm Gillespie, a solicitor. He was christened as ...
, Scottish architect (died 1855
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.
* January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru.
* January 23
** The first bridge over the Mississippi River open ...
)
* August 22 – Carlo Amati, Italian architect (died 1852
Events
January–March
* January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.
* January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come t ...
)
Deaths
* June 4 – Johann Gottfried Rosenberg, German-Danish rococo architect (born1709
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Battle of St. John's: The French capture St. Joh ...
)
References
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Years in architecture
18th-century architecture