title: 1784 in architecture
text: # 1784 in architecture
  
  The year 1784 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * September 1 – John Sanders becomes the first architectural student of John Soane.
  * In Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the Gardens of Orienbaum, a ride is built that features carriages that undulate over hills within grooved tracks, a predecessor of the roller coaster.
  * Étienne-Louis Boullée proposes a cenotaph to Isaac Newton.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * St Andrew's Church in New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Andrew Frazer and Robert Kay, opened.
  * In New London, Connecticut, the town hall is built (1784/85).
  * Ishak Pasha Palace is built in Turkey.
  * Ubosot at Wat Phra Kaew temple in Bangkok, Thailand, receives the Emerald Buddha (March 22).
  * Work starts on La Moneda Palace in Santiago, originally intended to house the Spanish mint in Colonial Chile, designed by Joaquín Toesca.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Auguste Cheval de Saint-Hubert.
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 11 – Thomas Hamilton, Scottish architect (died 1858)
  * January 21 – Georg Moller, German architect and town planner (died 1852)
  * February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German Neoclassicist architect (died 1864)
  * October 3 – Ithiel Town, American architect and civil engineer (died 1844)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March – Thomas Cooley, English architect who worked in Dublin (born 1740)
  * April 7 – Samuel Rhoads, American architect and cultural figure (born 1711)
  * September 14 – James Essex, English builder and architect (born 1722)
  