1783 in architecture
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The year 1783 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- The Bolshoi Kamenny TheatreBolshoi Kamenny TheatreThe Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre was a theatre in Saint Petersburg.- History :It was built in 1783 to Antonio Rinaldi's Neoclassical design as the Kamenny Theatre. It was rebuilt in 1802 and renamed the Bolshoi, but burned down in 1811. The building was restored in 1818, and...
is completed in Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
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. - Boston LightBoston LightBoston Light is a lighthouse located on Little Brewster Island in outer Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The first lighthouse to be built on the site dates back to 1716, and was the first lighthouse to be built in what is now the United States...
is rebuilt after the lighthouseLighthouseA lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
was destroyed in the American RevolutionAmerican RevolutionThe American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America...
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Births
- May 14 - Giuseppe JappelliGiuseppe JappelliGiuseppe Jappelli was an Italian neoclassic architect and engineer who was born and died in Venice. He studied at the Clementine Academy in Bologna. In 1836–7, he traveled to France and England, an experience that would be formative on his career as a park architect. His best known work is...
(died 18521852 in architectureThe year 1852 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster designed by Charles Barry and August Pugin is completed.* King's Cross railway station in London is completed.-Awards:...
) - June 2 - Solomon WillardSolomon WillardSolomon Willard , was a carver and builder in Massachusetts who is remembered primarily for designing and overseeing the Bunker Hill Monument, the first monumental obelisk erected in the United States.-Background:...
, Massachusetts craftsman, architect and builder (died 18611861 in architectureThe year 1861 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Arlington Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, United States is completed.-Awards:* Royal Gold Medal - J. B. Leseur.* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: ....
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Deaths
- February 6 - Capability BrownCapability BrownLancelot Brown , more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure...
, landscape architect (b. 1716)