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Overview of the events of 1775 in architecture
The year 1775 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures[edit]
Buildings[edit]
- 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.
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