1751 in architecture
The year 1751 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
- June 29 – Foundations of Santo Domingo convent in Buenos Aires, designed by Antonio Masella Turin, are laid.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- Dresden Cathedral in Saxony, designed by Gaetano Chiaveri, is completed.
- Church of St. Michael in Berg am Laim, Munich in Bavaria, designed by Johann Michael Fischer, is completed.
- Pilgrimage Church of Maria Schnee, Aufhausen in Bavaria, designed by Johann Michael Fischer, is completed.
- Crossmichael Parish Church in south west Scotland is completed.
- The Kalvária Banská Štiavnica calvary in the Kingdom of Hungary is completed.
- The Sunehri Masjid in the Red Fort of Old Delhi, India is completed.
- Second Old Ursuline Convent, New Orleans, designed by Ignace François Broutin, is completed.
- Codrington Library at All Souls College, Oxford, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed.
- Prince William Mansion, Copenhagen, is completed.
- Dutch House at Kuskovo near Moscow, designed by Y. I. Kologrivov, is completed.
Births
Deaths
- January 6 – Carl Marcus Tuscher, German-born Danish portrait painter, printmaker, architect and decorator
- February 8 – Nicola Salvi, Italian architect
- February 19 – Richard Cassels, German-born architect working in Ireland
- March 3 – Batty Langley, English garden designer and pioneer of Gothic Revival architecture
- August 9 – Ignace François Broutin, French military officer and architect in Louisiana
- December 18 – Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Bohemian baroque architect