1701 in architecture

The year 1701 in architecture involved some significant events.

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Events

• Sir John Vanbrugh begins work on a house for himself, known as "Goose-pie House" (demolished 1898). At around the same time, he begins work on Castle Howard.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1701

Buildings completed

Hopetoun House, South Queensferry, Scotland

• Benjamin Cole House, Swansea, Massachusetts
• Bevis Marks Synagogue, London, England (first synagogue built in England)
• Dubdi Monastery, West Sikkim, India
• Església de Sant Esteve de Bixessarri, Andorra
• Hopetoun House, South Queensferry, Scotland, by William Bruce (begun 1699)
• Approximate date - Collegiate Church of Saint Magdalena and Saint Stanisław in Poznań, Poland (begun 1651)

Births

• February – Johann Baptist Martinelli, Austrian architect and constructor of Italian descent (died 1754)
• April 9 – Giambattista Nolli, Italian architect and surveyor (died 1756)
• June – Nicolai Eigtved, leading proponent of the French rococo style in Danish architecture (died 1754)
• November 10 – Johann Joseph Couven, German Baroque architect (died 1763)
• Francesco Maria Preti, Italian Baroque architect (died 1774)

Deaths

• Abraham Leuthner von Grundt, Bohemian master mason (born c.1639/40)