1700 in architecture
The year 1700 in architecture involved some significant events.
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Buildings and structures
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Events
- March 27 – François de Rohan, prince de Soubise, buys the Hôtel de Clisson, which is subsequently remodelled by Pierre-Alexis Delamair.
- A new facade is built on the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter Apostle at Frascati, Italy.
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, Santiago de Cuba
- Brown House, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA
- Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, Santiago de Cuba (begun 1638), by Giovanni Battista Antonelli
- DeWint House, Tappan, New York, USA, by Daniel DeClark
- Federal Hall, New York City
- Hill Court Manor, Ross-on-Wye, England
- Rossie House, Angus, Scotland, by Alexander Edward
- Slushko Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania (begun c.1690), by Giovanni Pietro Perti
- Tessin Palace, Stockholm (begun 1694), by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
- Upper Chapel, Sheffield, England, by followers of Timothy Jollie
- Wren Building, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA (begun 1695)
Births
- May 12 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (died 1773)
- August 27 – Carl Hårleman, Swedish architect (died 1753)
- date unknown
- Santiago Bonavía, Italian architect and painter (died 1760)
- Bartolomeo Rastrelli (died 1771)
Deaths
- September 15 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (born 1613)
- date unknown – Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish architect and sculptor (born 1639)
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gollark: Also, the "disaster is inevitable" thing seems... wrong. I think if stuff is handled correctly humanity can weather the problems we currently are and are going to experience and, er, do well. Problem is that there are lots of ways to do things very wrong.
gollark: *Probably* still better than before cities and stuff. Diseases spread anyway then, but less so, and we can actually treat them and have hygiene and sanitation now.
gollark: Still, I think on the whole we're better off disease-wise than the people of, say, 400 years ago.
gollark: Hmm, I suppose so on the population densities one.
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