title: 1783 in architecture
text: # 1783 in architecture
  
  The year 1783 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Antonio Rinaldi, opens with a performance of Paisiello's opera Il mondo della luna.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings completed
  
  * New Vilnius Cathedral in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, designed by Laurynas Gucevičius, is consecrated.
  * Façade of Carmelite Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Efraim Szreger, is completed
  * Laleli Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, is rebuilt after a fire.
  * Boston Light (lighthouse) rebuilt on the site of an earlier one destroyed in the American Revolution.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Vaudoyer.
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 14 – Giuseppe Jappelli, Venetian architect (died 1852)
  * June 2 – Solomon Willard, Massachusetts craftsman, architect and builder (died 1861)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (born 1716)
  