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Overview of the events of 1766 in architecture
The year 1766 in architecture involved some significant events.
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Strawberry Hill House
New Town, Edinburgh plan
- April 17 – James Craig's plan for the New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, wins the prize offered by the city council in January.[1]
- October 28 – Coldstream Bridge across the River Tweed on the England/Scotland border, designed by John Smeaton, is opened to traffic.
- Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland, is completed.
- Strawberry Hill House, London, designed by Horace Walpole, is completed in the Gothick style.
- Pazo de Raxoi in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is completed.
- Rebuilding of Potocki Palace, Warsaw, to designs by Jakub Fontana, is completed.
- Shardeloes (country house) in Buckinghamshire, England, designed by Stiff Leadbetter, is completed.
- New main residence at Skjoldenæsholm Castle in Denmark, possibly designed by Philip de Lange, is built.
- Theatre Royal, Bristol, England, built by Thomas Paty to designs by James Saunders, is opened.
- New Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is completed as an opera house.
- St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway (Manhattan) in New York City, designed by Thomas McBean, is completed.
- St Nikolaus church at Brohl in the Rhineland, designed by J. A. Neurohr, is built.
- St Markus church at Pünderich in the Rhineland, designed by Paul Stähling, is built.
- Stone Hermitage and Rozhdestvensky Bridges in Saint Petersburg are completed.
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