1783 in architecture explained

The year 1783 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Antonio Rinaldi, opens with a performance of Paisiello's opera Il mondo della luna.^[1]

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• New Vilnius Cathedral in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, designed by Laurynas Gucevičius, is consecrated.
• Façade of Carmelite Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Efraim Szreger, is completed
• Laleli Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, is rebuilt after a fire.^[2]
• Boston Light (lighthouse) rebuilt on the site of an earlier one destroyed in the American Revolution.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Vaudoyer.

Births

• May 14 – Giuseppe Jappelli, Venetian architect (died 1852)
• June 2 – Solomon Willard, Massachusetts craftsman, architect and builder (died 1861)

Deaths

• February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (born 1716)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011-12-04. Mariinsky Theatre. Mariinsky Theatre. https://web.archive.org/web/20111203094550/http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/about/history_theatre/mariinsky_theatre. 2011-12-03. dead.
2. http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=7442 Laleli Complex