1737 in architecture
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The year 1737 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- November 4 â The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (Italy), designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano under the direction of Charles VII of Naples, officially opens
- Palladian Bridge, Wilton House (England), designed by Roger Morris, is completed.
- Fuerte San Miguel (Uruguay).
- Samuel Eliot House in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
- Black Swan Hotel, Devizes, England.
- The ceiling of the chapter house in Porto Cathedral is decorated.
- Approximate date â New Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, England, designed by James Paine, begun.
Publications
Births
- June 7 â Jacques Gondouin, French architect and designer (died 1818)
- September 8 â Samuel Wyatt, English architect and engineer (died 1807)
Deaths
- March 8 â Domenico Rossi, Swiss-Italian architect (born 1657)
- December 21 â Alessandro Galilei, Florentine mathematician, architect and theorist (born 1691)
