title: 1764 in architecture
text: # 1764 in architecture
  
  The year 1764 in architecture involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Robert Adam's Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia published.
  * Heidelberg Castle (Holy Roman Empire, Germany) is again burned and destroyed by a thunderbolt.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * Exeter Synagogue (England) is dedicated.
  * New All Saints Church, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England, designed by Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, with James "Athenian" Stuart, is built.
  * Church of St. Stephen, Borovo in Serbia is completed.
  * Iglesia Mayor de San Pedro y San Pablo in San Fernando, Cádiz, is consecrated.
  * Bell tower of Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Valdemoro) in Spain is completed.
  * Saint John the Baptist Church, Târgu Mureș in the Habsburg Empire, designed by Jesuit Valentin Scherzer, is built.
  * Church of the Intercession at Kizhi Pogost in Karelia is rebuilt.
  * Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, is rebuilt.
  * Custom House, Lancaster, England is designed by Richard Gillow in the Palladian style.
  * Holkham Hall, England, is completed in the Palladian style by William Kent after thirty years of building work.
  * The Yellow Palace, Copenhagen, is completed by Nicolas-Henri Jardin for the timber merchant H. F. Bargum. It later becomes a residence of the Danish royal family.
  * Château du Prada in France, designed by Victor Louis, is built.
  * The Chinese House in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam (Prussia), designed by Johann Gottfried Büring, is completed.
  * Jade Belt Bridge in grounds of Summer Palace, Beijing (Qing dynasty China) is completed.
  * Sandy Hook Light, New Jersey, is designed and built by Isaac Conro.
  * Construction work begins on the Theatre Royal, Bristol, England, designed by James Paty.
  * Remodelling of Łazienki Palace in Warsaw by Domenico Merlini is begun (completed 1795).
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 1 – Benjamin Latrobe, British-born American neoclassical architect best known for the United States Capitol (died 1820)
  * July 9 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, French architect and engraver (died 1846)
  * August 22 – Charles Percier, French neoclassical architect, interior decorator and designer (died 1838)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * August 7 – James Burrough, English academic, antiquary and amateur architect (born 1691)
  * Unknown – Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto, Venetian architect (born c.1700)
  