The year 1724 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Events
- Work recommences on the Salon d'Hercule at Versailles under Jacques Gabriel, after a break caused by the death of King Louis XIV of France in 1715.
Buildings and structures
See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1724
Buildings completed
- Cannons, a house in Edgware, Middlesex, England, built for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos with façades designed by James Gibbs.
- Maids of Honour Row, terraced houses on Richmond Green, Richmond, Surrey, England.
- Chester Courthouse in Pennsylvania (North America).1
- Shire Hall, Monmouth, Great Britain.2
- Church of St. Edmund, Dudley, England.
- St. Stephanus, Bork, Germany.
- Cluj Jesuit Church in Transylvania (Romania).
- Stavropoleos Monastery in Bucharest, Romania.
- Rebuilt Sam Poo Kong temple in Semarang, Java.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Pierre Le Tailleur de Boncourt.
Births
- June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (died 1792)
- October – Hans Næss, Danish architect (died 1795)
- date unknown – Julien-David Le Roy, French architect and archaeologist (died 1803)
Deaths
- January 24 – William Dickinson, English architect (born c.1670)
- March 8 – Enrico Zuccalli, Swiss architect working for the Wittelsbach regents of Bavaria and Cologne (born c.1642)3
- date unknown – Pierre Cailleteau, French architect and interior designer (born 1655)
References
"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP ↩
"The Shire Hall, Monmouth". Listed Buildings Online - British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2012-04-12. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-2228-the-shire-hall-monmouth ↩
Sabin Heym: Henrico Zuccalli: der kurbayerische Hofbaumeister. Schnell und Steiner. München/Zürich 1984, ISBN 3-7954-0365-0 /wiki/ISBN_(identifier) ↩