1775 in architecture explained

The year 1775 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Casino at Marino near Dublin, Ireland, designed by William Chambers is completed at about this date.^[1]
• Fort Belan commanding the western end of the Menai Strait in Wales completed.^[2]
• Midford Castle folly in Somerset, England, built to a design by John Carter.
• Conygar Tower folly in Somerset, England, built to a design by Richard Phelps.
• Bygholm Castle manor house in Denmark built to a design by Andreas Møller.
• Hôtel des Monnaies, Paris (mint), designed by Jacques Denis Antoine, is largely completed.^[3]
• Hôtel Grimod de La Reynière town house in Paris built to a design by Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré.
• The Wick house in Richmond, Surrey, England, built to a design by Robert Mylne.
• Bostock Hall in Cheshire, England, rebuilt, probably to a design by Samuel Wyatt.
• Ingersley Hall in Cheshire, England built about this date.

Births

• May 8 – George Gwilt the younger, English architect (died 1856)
• October 23 – Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer, German neoclassical architect (died 1842)
• November 23 – Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray, German architect (died 1845)
• December 17 – Carlo Rossi, Italian-born architect working in Russia (died 1849)

Deaths

• April 30 – Peter Harrison, English-born architect, active in the Rhode Island colony (born 1716)
• December 28 – John Phillips, English master carpenter, builder and architect (born c.1709)

Notes and References

1. Book: Tucker . Susie I. . Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-century Vocabulary and Usage . 2014 . A&C Black . 9781472512673 . 16 . en.
2. Web site: Middleton . Christopher . Wales: Fortified by silence . Telegraph . 8 April 2019 . 5 March 2001.
3. Web site: Clark. Amanda C. R.. Building the Financial Facade: Jacques-Denis Antoine's Hotel De La Monnaie, The Parisian Mint, 1765-1775. Whitworth University. Spokane. 2005. Library Faculty Scholarship, Paper 1. 2023-05-20.