1757 in architecture
# 1757 in architecture

The year 1757 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* Frederiks Hospital, Copenhagen, is opened.
* Middlesex Hospital, London, is opened.
* Vorontsov Palace (Saint Petersburg), designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, is completed.
* Gammel Holtegård near Copenhagen is completed by architect Lauritz de Thurah as a house for himself.
* Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac in Aix-en-Provence is completed with a façade designed by Georges Vallon.
* Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire, England, a Palladian house attributed to the polymath Thomas Wright, is completed.
* Swinfen Hall in Staffordshire, England, designed by Benjamin Wyatt, is built.
* Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Negoslavci in Croatia is completed.
* Wolvendaal Church in Colombo (Dutch Ceylon) is completed.
* Ossian's Hall of Mirrors in Scotland, a folly, is built.

## Publications

* William Chambers – Designs of Chinese Buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils: to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c. (London)

## Births

* January 16 – Samuel McIntire, American architect (died 1811)
* May 4 – Manuel Tolsá, Spanish architect and sculptor working in Mexico (died 1816)
* August 9 – Thomas Telford, British civil engineer (died 1834)

## Deaths

* March 12 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and painter (born 1696)
