1750 in architecture
# 1750 in architecture

The year 1750 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Events

* November 18 – Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London, designed by Swiss-born engineer Charles Labelye, is officially opened.
* Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, England, is commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale), to be designed by James Paine and Matthew Brettingham.
* Calcot Park, Berkshire, England, is rebuilt by John Blagrave, following a fire.
* William Halfpenny publishes Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste in England.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* Azm Palace, Damascus
* Christoffel Vought Farmstead, New Jersey
* Preservation Hall, a private residence in the New Orleans French Quarter (it will serve as a tavern during the War of 1812)
* Fort Rensellear in Canajoharie, New York

## Births

* January 21 – François Baillairgé, architect, painter and sculptor (died 1830)
* May 20 – William Thornton, British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect (died 1828)
* date unknown – John Booth, architect and surveyor (died 1843)
* probable – Thomas Baldwin, English surveyor and architect in Bath (died 1820)

## Deaths

* September 5 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (born 1706)
