1716 in architecture

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The year 1716 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• America's first lighthouse, Boston Light, is built; it will be destroyed in the American Revolution and rebuilt in 1783.
• In Buenos Aires, Argentina, a monastery is built by the Franciscan Recoleto monks, and the complex will later serve as a hospital during the English invasions.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• Peter Harrison - English-born architect, active in the Rhode Island colony (d. 1775)