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Overview of the events of 1766 in architecture
The year 1766 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- April 17 –
James Craig's plan for the
New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, wins the prize offered by the city council in January.
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- October 28 –
Coldstream Bridge across the
River Tweed on the England/Scotland border, designed by
John Smeaton, is opened to traffic.
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Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland, is completed.
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Strawberry Hill House, London, designed by
Horace Walpole, is completed in the
Gothick style.
-
Pazo de Raxoi in
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is completed.
- Rebuilding of
Potocki Palace, Warsaw, to designs by
Jakub Fontana, is completed.
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Shardeloes (country house) in Buckinghamshire, England, designed by
Stiff Leadbetter, is completed.
- New main residence at
Skjoldenæsholm Castle in Denmark, possibly designed by
Philip de Lange, is built.
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Theatre Royal, Bristol, England, built by
Thomas Paty to designs by James Saunders, is opened.
- New
Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm, designed by
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is completed as an opera house.
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St. Paul's Chapel on
Broadway (Manhattan) in New York City, designed by Thomas McBean, is completed.
- St Nikolaus church at
Brohl in the Rhineland, designed by J. A. Neurohr, is built.
- St Markus church at
Pünderich in the Rhineland, designed by Paul Stähling, is built.
- Stone
Hermitage and
Rozhdestvensky Bridges in
Saint Petersburg are completed.
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