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1783 in architecture

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The year 1783 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Antonio Rinaldi, opens with a performance of Paisiello's opera Il mondo della luna.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

New Vilnius Cathedral in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, designed by Laurynas Gucevičius, is consecrated.
Façade of Carmelite Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Efraim Szreger, is completed
Laleli Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, is rebuilt after a fire.
Boston Light (lighthouse) rebuilt on the site of an earlier one destroyed in the American Revolution.

Awards

Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Vaudoyer.

Births

May 14 – Giuseppe Jappelli, Venetian architect (died 1852)
June 2 – Solomon Willard, Massachusetts craftsman, architect and builder (died 1861)

Deaths

February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (born 1716)

References

"Mariinsky Theatre". Mariinsky Theatre.
link. (2006-05-25 . ''[[ArchNet]]''.)

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