1756 in architecture
# 1756 in architecture

The year 1756 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Events

* Greek Revival architecture appears in the window design for Nuneham House in Oxfordshire, England, by Stiff Leadbetter.
* John Smeaton produces the first high-quality cement using hydraulic lime since Roman times for construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse (completed 1759).

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* Replacement Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo in Russia, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, is completed.
* Klov Palace, Kiev in Russia, probably designed by Gottfried Schädel and Pyotr Neyelov, is completed.
* Replacement Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Chełm in Poland, designed by Paweł Fontana, is completed.
* Reconstruction of Abbot's Palace (Oliwa) in Gdańsk, Poland, is completed.
* Newbridge, now Old Bridge, Pontypridd in Wales, designed by William Edwards, is completed.
* St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by Allan Dreghorn, is completed.
* Octagon Chapel, Norwich in England, designed by Thomas Ivory, is completed.
* Original Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road in London is built.
* Trafford Hall in England is built.
* Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire in England, designed by Isaac Ware, is completed.
* Shaw Mansion (New London, Connecticut) is built.
* The President's House (Princeton), New Jersey, is built.
* First Presbyterian Church (Newburyport, Massachusetts) is built.
* Alloways Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Hancock's Bridge, New Jersey, is built.
* Saint Gevorg of Mughni Church, Tbilisi in Armenia is completely rebuilt.
* St John the Evangelist Church, Shobdon, Herefordshire, England, is completely rebuilt with a "Strawberry Hill Gothic" interior. Elements of the previous building are incorporated in folly arches nearby.

## Publications

* Isaac Ware publishes A Complete Body of Architecture in London.

## Births

* February 29 – C. F. Hansen, Danish architect (d. 1845)
* Chrystian Piotr Aigner, Polish architect (d. 1841)
* Giovanni Antonio Antolini, Italian architect (d. 1841)
* 1756 or 1758 – Francesco Piranesi, Italian-born architectural engraver and architect (d. 1810)

## Deaths

* July 1 – Giambattista Nolli, Italian architect and surveyor (b. 1701)
