title: 1768 in architecture
text: # 1768 in architecture
  
  The year 1768 in architecture involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Work begins on Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson.
  * Duchal House, Scotland, extended.
  * In Bath, England, St James' Church is designed by John Palmer of Bath (between 1768-1769).
  * Potseluev Bridge, St Petersburg, Russia, reconstructed to accommodate horse traffic.
  * Architects Domenico Merlini and Szymon Bogumił Zug are ennobled in Poland.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings completed
  
  * Nathaniel Hill Brick House, Montgomery, New York.
  * The Paragon, Bath, England, designed by Thomas Warr Attwood.
  * Petit Trianon, Versailles, France, originally designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel by the order of King Louis XV for his long-term mistress, Madame de Pompadour, but used by Queen Marie Antoinette.
  * Blue Mosque, Yerevan.
  * Façade of Theatine Church, Munich, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is completed by his son.
  * Reconstruction of Puerta del Sol in Madrid and construction of Real Casa de Correos (post office) there, both begun by Ventura Rodríguez, are completed by Jaime Marquet.
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 12 – John Sanders, architect, first pupil of Sir John Soane (died 1826)
  * May 11 – David Hamilton, Glasgow architect (died 1843)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 8 – George Dance the Elder, City of London surveyor and architect (born 1695)
  * March 11 – Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Sicilian Baroque architect (born 1702)
  * April 14 – François de Cuvilliés, Walloon-born Bavarian architect (born 1695)
  