1793 in architecture

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The year 1793 in architecture involved :

Events

• August 8 - In Paris, France, the Académie d'architecture is suspended by the revolutionary National Convention, which decreed the abolition of the national academies.

• In England, Thomas Baldwin (architect), who was appointed as the Bath City Architect in 1775, is dismissed due to rivalry from John Palmer of Bath.

Buildings

• George Washington's sixteen-sided barn (16 sides) is built, the earliest recorded barn of that type.
• The West Boston Bridge is built to connect Boston's West End to Cambridgeport: it spans 180 piers, and is 3483 feet (1100 m) long.
• In Nassau, Fort Pincastle is built, of native limestone, in the shape of an old paddle-wheel steamer: Fort Pincastle served as a lighthouse for a quarter century until the lighthouse on Hog Island started operating in 1817.

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