1699 in architecture
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The year 1699 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh is commissioned to begin Castle Howard in Yorkshire.[1]
- Craigiehall, Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce and James Smith,[2] is completed for William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
- St Werburgh's Church, Derby, England[3]
- Thomas Lambert House, Rowley, Massachusetts completed[4]
- Trinity Cathedral in Pskov, Russia completed[5]
Births
- February 10 â Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo, Spanish Baroque architect (died 1725)
- February 17 â Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian painter and architect (died 1753)
- date unknown
- Matthew Brettingham, English Palladian country and town house architect (died 1769)
- Edward Lovett Pearce, Irish Palladian architect (died 1733)
Deaths
- November â Stephen Manwaring, North Carolina architect (born c.1640)[6]