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The year 1753 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings

Horse Guards, London
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Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Horse Guards in London, designed by William Kent and John Vardy, is completed.[1]
 - State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton, is completed.
 - New Branicki Palace, Warsaw, designed by Johann Sigmund Deybel, is completed.
 - First stage of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival 'castle' at Strawberry Hill House near London is completed.
 - Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, designed by Jacob Fortling for himself, is completed.
 - Carlyle House, Alexandria, Virginia, is completed.
 - Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is opened.
 - Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is opened.
 - Confidencen theatre in Ulriksdal Palace, Sweden, with interior completed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is opened.
 - Teatro Carignano in Turin, designed by Benedetto Alfieri, is opened.
 - Church of Santa Caterina (Livorno), designed by Giovanni Del Fantasia, is opened.
 - New church of San Geremia in Venice, designed by Carlo Corbellini, is built.
 - Sunehri Masjid, Lahore ('Golden Mosque'), designed by Nawab Syed Bhikari Khan, is built.
 - Outer Pagoda of Monk Wansong in Beijing is built.
 - Barakoni church in Georgia is commissioned from Avtandil Shulavreli.
 
Births
- January 6 – Samuel Pepys Cockerell, English architect (died 1827)
 - September 10 – John Soane, English architect (died 1837)
 - Henry A. Baker, Irish architect (died 1836)
 - Laurynas Gucevičius, Lithuanian architect (died 1798)
 
Deaths
- February 9 – Carl Hårleman, Swedish architect (born 1700)
 - August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German baroque architect (born 1687)
 - December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English Palladian architect and politician (born 1694)
 
References
- ↑ "Samuel Scott (1702-72) - The Horse Guards". www.royalcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
 
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