Editing 1774 in architecture

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The year '''1774 in architecture''' involved some significant events.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1774}}
===Buildings===
[[Image:Hammond-Harwood House (Md. Ave. Facade).jpg|thumb|350px|[[Hammond-Harwood House]], [[Annapolis, Maryland]]]]
* [[Hammond-Harwood House]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland]], designed by [[William Buckland (architect)|William Buckland]] is begun and largely completed before the architect's death, the only surviving example of [[American colonial architecture]] based on a design by [[Palladio]].
* Original construction of [[Château de Bénouville]] in Normandy, designed by [[Claude Nicolas Ledoux]] is completed.
* [[Royal Crescent]] in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath, England]], designed by [[John Wood, the Younger]] is completed.{{cn|date=January 2019}}
* [[Dundas House]] in [[New Town, Edinburgh]], Scotland, designed by [[William Chambers (architect)|William Chambers]], is completed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dundas House |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=215004 |website=Dictionary of Scottish Architects |access-date=23 July 2018}}</ref>
* [[Gatcombe Park]] in Gloucestershire, England is completed (much later and after reconstruction the private country home of [[Anne, Princess Royal]]).
* [[Clifton House, Belfast]] in the north of Ireland, a [[poorhouse]] designed by Mr Cooley, is opened.
* [[Włodawa Synagogue]] in Poland is completed.
* Basilica church of [[Santissima Annunziata Maggiore, Naples]], designed by [[Luigi Vanvitelli]] and completed by his son Carlo, is consecrated.
* [[Ermita de Santa Ana]] overlooking [[Chiclana de la Frontera]] in the Spanish [[province of Cádiz]], designed by Torcuato Cayón, is completed.
* [[Monastery of San Francisco, Lima]], Peru, consecrated in [[1673 in architecture|1673]], is completed.
* Construction of [[Real Felipe Fortress]] at [[Callao]] near Lima, Peru, begun to the design of [[Louis Godin]] in [[1747 in architecture|1747]], is concluded.
* Vaults and choir of [[Vannes Cathedral]] in Brittany are completed.
* [[English Bridge]] over the [[River Severn]] in [[Shrewsbury]], England, designed by [[John Gwynn (architect)|John Gwynn]], is completed.
* [[Marble Bridge]] at [[Tsarskoye Selo]] in Russia is erected.
* Work ceases on the [[Palace of Versailles]] in France.
{{wide image|Royal Crescent, bath. John Wood the Younger, 1767-1774.jpg|620px|[[Royal Crescent]], [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]}}

==Births==
* April 29 – [[David Hoadley (architect)|David Hoadley]], American architect (died [[1839 in architecture|1839]])
* November 8 – [[Robert Reid (architect)|Robert Reid]], Scottish royal architect (died [[1856 in architecture|1856]])
* Late(?) – [[David Laing (architect)|David Laing]], English architect (died [[1856 in architecture|1856]])
* [[James O'Donnell (architect)|James O'Donnell]], Anglo-Irish architect working in North America (died [[1830 in architecture|1830]])
* 1774/5 – [[William Atkinson (architect)|William Atkinson]], English [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] country house architect (died [[1839 in architecture|1839]])

==Deaths==
* January 9 – [[Jacques-François Blondel]], French architect and teacher (born [[1705 in architecture|1705]])
* January 28 – [[Antonio Galli Bibiena]], Italian architect (born [[1700 in architecture|1700]])
* June 20 – [[Joshua Kirby]], English landscape painter, engraver, writer, topographical draughtsman and architect (born [[1716 in architecture|1716]])
* October 15 – Prince [[Dmitry Ukhtomsky]], chief architect of Moscow (born [[1719 in architecture|1719]])
* November/December – [[William Buckland (architect)|William Buckland]], English-born architect in the American colonies (born [[1734 in architecture|1734]])
* [[Francesco Maria Preti]], Italian Baroque architect (born [[1701 in architecture|1701]])

==References==
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