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<h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1774</p> <h3>Buildings</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Hammond-Harwood_House/1h24p8zh">Hammond-Harwood House</a> in <a href="/facts/Annapolis%2c_Maryland/X4WV6NXR">Annapolis, Maryland</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/William_Buckland_(architect)/Xf7wXA4Y">William Buckland</a> is begun and largely completed before the architect's death, the only surviving example of <a href="/facts/American_colonial_architecture/KLWJe6NU">American colonial architecture</a> based on a design by <a href="/facts/Palladio/Ys2dTuYU">Palladio</a>.</li> <li>Original construction of <a href="/facts/Ch%25C3%25A2teau_de_B%25C3%25A9nouville/0LRB0yny">Château de Bénouville</a> in Normandy, designed by <a href="/facts/Claude_Nicolas_Ledoux/pKSCdyF2">Claude Nicolas Ledoux</a> is completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Royal_Crescent/4gw3JAQK">Royal Crescent</a> in <a href="/facts/Bath%2c_Somerset/mHppKuoG">Bath, England</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/John_Wood%2c_the_Younger/jvSYhUx8">John Wood, the Younger</a> is completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Dundas_House/TgfVz3eh">Dundas House</a> in <a href="/facts/New_Town%2c_Edinburgh/KzTPsCka">New Town, Edinburgh</a>, Scotland, designed by <a href="/facts/William_Chambers_(architect)/PU6fhDWr">William Chambers</a>, is completed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Gatcombe_Park/ufed4E6v">Gatcombe Park</a> in Gloucestershire, England is completed (much later and after reconstruction the private country home of <a href="/facts/Anne%2c_Princess_Royal/6HI3zHkk">Anne, Princess Royal</a>).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Clifton_House%2c_Belfast/Hm1zjRnB">Clifton House, Belfast</a> in the north of Ireland, a <a href="/facts/Poorhouse/EvmYwuda">poorhouse</a> designed by Mr Cooley, is opened.</li> <li><a href="/facts/W%25C5%2582odawa_Synagogue/lQ6EhBTX">Włodawa Synagogue</a> in Poland is completed.</li> <li>Basilica church of <a href="/facts/Santissima_Annunziata_Maggiore%2c_Naples/CJgCYs0L">Santissima Annunziata Maggiore, Naples</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Luigi_Vanvitelli/oFKDYapt">Luigi Vanvitelli</a> and completed by his son Carlo, is consecrated.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Ermita_de_Santa_Ana/oospIlTB">Ermita de Santa Ana</a> overlooking <a href="/facts/Chiclana_de_la_Frontera/1s9er1Iy">Chiclana de la Frontera</a> in the Spanish <a href="/facts/Province_of_C%25C3%25A1diz/g00Fxf1W">province of Cádiz</a>, designed by Torcuato Cayón, is completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Monastery_of_San_Francisco%2c_Lima/TDs6QJ85">Monastery of San Francisco, Lima</a>, Peru, consecrated in <a href="/facts/1673_in_architecture/J2xAF5Hr">1673</a>, is completed.</li> <li>Construction of <a href="/facts/Real_Felipe_Fortress/D9zBQIBq">Real Felipe Fortress</a> at <a href="/facts/Callao/GjSCYb0k">Callao</a> near Lima, Peru, begun to the design of <a href="/facts/Louis_Godin/SmGym0QD">Louis Godin</a> in <a href="/facts/1747_in_architecture/t375kszp">1747</a>, is concluded.</li> <li>Vaults and choir of <a href="/facts/Vannes_Cathedral/V3fLRTMz">Vannes Cathedral</a> in Brittany are completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/English_Bridge/ghBtIA2o">English Bridge</a> over the <a href="/facts/River_Severn/sw9KLcCH">River Severn</a> in <a href="/facts/Shrewsbury/Xo9eohD7">Shrewsbury</a>, England, designed by <a href="/facts/John_Gwynn_(architect)/sMCGyu72">John Gwynn</a>, is completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Marble_Bridge/jH62HBRe">Marble Bridge</a> at <a href="/facts/Tsarskoye_Selo/PqxvN72T">Tsarskoye Selo</a> in Russia is erected.</li> <li>Work ceases on the <a href="/facts/Palace_of_Versailles/UEBCWwQU">Palace of Versailles</a> in France.</li></ul> <a href="/facts/Royal_Crescent/4gw3JAQK">Royal Crescent</a>, <a href="/facts/Bath%2c_Somerset/mHppKuoG">Bath</a> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>April 29 – <a href="/facts/David_Hoadley_(architect)/kgMmRbVj">David Hoadley</a>, American architect (died <a href="/facts/1839_in_architecture/J0ojqclF">1839</a>)</li> <li>November 8 – <a href="/facts/Robert_Reid_(architect)/oA5G4TU6">Robert Reid</a>, Scottish royal architect (died <a href="/facts/1856_in_architecture/HRJJIJ3G">1856</a>)</li> <li>Late(?) – <a href="/facts/David_Laing_(architect)/kJyqYX4x">David Laing</a>, English architect (died <a href="/facts/1856_in_architecture/HRJJIJ3G">1856</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/James_O%2527Donnell_(architect)/qqhPy1hn">James O'Donnell</a>, Anglo-Irish architect working in North America (died <a href="/facts/1830_in_architecture/gSU0uQBb">1830</a>)</li> <li>1774/5 – <a href="/facts/William_Atkinson_(architect)/AqTrwC2L">William Atkinson</a>, English <a href="/facts/Gothic_Revival_architecture/gWJmqCH1">Gothic</a> country house architect (died <a href="/facts/1839_in_architecture/J0ojqclF">1839</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>January 9 – <a href="/facts/Jacques-Fran%25C3%25A7ois_Blondel/mG0MuvbJ">Jacques-François Blondel</a>, French architect and teacher (born <a href="/facts/1705_in_architecture/FCtSyCCT">1705</a>)</li> <li>January 28 – <a href="/facts/Antonio_Galli_Bibiena/LX9E5fxb">Antonio Galli Bibiena</a>, Italian architect (born <a href="/facts/1700_in_architecture/rbcnz9g5">1700</a>)</li> <li>June 20 – <a href="/facts/Joshua_Kirby/91228lHj">Joshua Kirby</a>, English landscape painter, engraver, writer, topographical draughtsman and architect (born <a href="/facts/1716_in_architecture/q40zl5qA">1716</a>)</li> <li>October 15 – Prince <a href="/facts/Dmitry_Ukhtomsky/GvfyF52W">Dmitry Ukhtomsky</a>, chief architect of Moscow (born <a href="/facts/1719_in_architecture/7b0Hkdk0">1719</a>)</li> <li>November/December – <a href="/facts/William_Buckland_(architect)/Xf7wXA4Y">William Buckland</a>, English-born architect in the American colonies (born <a href="/facts/1734_in_architecture/Vg1yek2g">1734</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Francesco_Maria_Preti/KhkYREW9">Francesco Maria Preti</a>, Italian Baroque architect (born <a href="/facts/1701_in_architecture/vekB9vWR">1701</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Dundas House". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 23 July 2018. <a href="http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=215004" target="_blank">http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=215004</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>