1788 in architecture

The year 1788 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Felix Meritis in Amsterdam (Netherlands), designed by Jacob Otten Husly, is opened.^[1]
• De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam, designed by Abraham van der Hart, is completed.^[2]
• Théâtre Graslin in Nantes (France), designed by Mathurin Crucy, is opened.^[3]
• Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna is established.
• Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, is built.
• Sofia Albertina Church in Scania (Sweden), designed by Carl Hårleman before his death in 1753, is inaugurated.
• Capilla de Ánimas in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) is completed.
• St. Spyridon Church, Peroj (Croatia) is completed.
• St Gregory's Church, Preshome (Scotland), designed by Father John Reid, is built.
• Façade of St. Anne's Church, Warsaw, by Chrystian Piotr Aigner, is completed.
• Admiralty House, London, designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, is opened.
• Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco in Syracuse, Sicily, rebuilt by Luciano Alì, is completed.
• Arresødal on Zealand (Denmark) is completed.
• Eriksholm Castle on the Isefjord (Denmark), designed by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, is completed.
• Sandbjerg in Jutland (Denmark) is built.
• Terraced houses in England at Camden Crescent, Bath and 32–44, Caledonia Place, Clifton, Bristol, designed by John Eveleigh, are built.
• Second Walton Bridge over the River Thames in England, designed by James Paine, is opened.

Births

• February 25 – Thomas Cubitt, English builder (died 1855)
• April 27 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect (died 1863)
• November – William Strickland, American architect (died 1854)

Deaths

• February 2 – James "Athenian" Stuart, English neoclassical architect (born 1733)
• September 27 – Sir Robert Taylor, English stonemason, sculptor and architect (born 1714)

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