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1720 in architecture
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1720 architecture
The year 1720 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
First Prix de Rome in architecture awarded in France to Antoine Derizet.
Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù converted into a theatre.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1720
Buildings
thumb|Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University)
Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University) is completed.https://www.nps.gov/places/massachusetts-hall.htm Massachusetts Hall National Park Service December 4, 2025
Rebuilding of All Saints Church, Oxford (in The High) is completed to designs by Henry Aldrich with tower and spire probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
213 and 215 King's Road, Chelsea, London.
Baroque remodelling of the Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna, probably by Anton Erhard Martinelli.
Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple in Bârsana, Romania (one of the wooden churches of Maramureș).
Replacement wooden Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva, Ukraine.
Schloss Bruchsal in Baden is commissioned from Anselm von Grünstein.
Births
March 22 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
October 4 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher of architectural views (d. 1778)
November 30 – André Soares, Portuguese sculptor and architect (d. 1769)
Deaths
References
architecture
Category:Architecture by year
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