1704 in architecture
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The year 1704 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh
- Is commissioned to begin Blenheim Palace.
- Designs Castle Howard in Yorkshire.
- New Schleissheim Palace near Munich in Bavaria, designed by Enrico Zuccalli, is completed.
- Cound Hall, Shropshire, England, designed by John Prince or Price, is completed.
- Burgh House, Hampstead, London is built.
- Church of the Ascension, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, probably designed by Sir William Wilson, is consecrated.[1]
- Hirado Castle in Nagasaki (Japan) is begun by Shigenobu Matsura, 29th lord of the Matsura clan.
Births
- March 6 (bapt.) - Isaac Ware, English architect (died 1766)
- August 26 (bapt.) - John Wood, the Elder, English architect working in Bath (died 1754)
Deaths
- Paolo Falconieri, Florentine architect, painter and mathematician (born 1638)
References
- ↑ Hickman, Douglas (1970). Birmingham. London: Studio Vista. p. 13.