1700 in architecture
# 1700 in architecture

The year 1700 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Events

* March 27 – François de Rohan, prince de Soubise, buys the Hôtel de Clisson, which is subsequently remodelled by Pierre-Alexis Delamair.
* A new facade is built on the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter Apostle at Frascati, Italy.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings completed

* Brown House, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA
* Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, Santiago de Cuba (begun 1638), by Giovanni Battista Antonelli
* DeWint House, Tappan, New York, USA, by Daniel DeClark
* Federal Hall, New York City
* Hill Court Manor, Ross-on-Wye, England
* Rossie House, Angus, Scotland, by Alexander Edward
* Slushko Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania (begun c.1690), by Giovanni Pietro Perti
* Tessin Palace, Stockholm (begun 1694), by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
* Upper Chapel, Sheffield, England, by followers of Timothy Jollie
* Wren Building, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA (begun 1695)

## Births

* May 12 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (died 1773)
* August 27 – Carl Hårleman, Swedish architect (died 1753)
* date unknown
   * Santiago Bonavía, Italian architect and painter (died 1760)
   * Bartolomeo Rastrelli (died 1771)

## Deaths

* September 15 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (born 1613)
* date unknown – Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish architect and sculptor (born 1639)
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