1704 in architecture

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The year 1704 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh is commissioned to begin Blenheim Palace.[1]
Schleissheim Palace near Munich in Bavaria, designed by Enrico Zuccalli, is completed.[2]
Cound Hall, Shropshire, England, designed by John Prince or Price, is completed.[3]
Burgh House, Hampstead, London is built.[4]
Church of the Ascension, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, probably designed by Sir William Wilson, is consecrated.[5]
Construction of Hirado Castle in Nagasaki (Japan) is begins.[6]
Construction on Ludwigsburg Palace begins.[7]

March 6 (bapt.) – Isaac Ware, English architect (died 1766)[8]
August 26 (bapt.) – John Wood, the Elder, English architect working in Bath (died 1754)[9]

Paolo Falconieri, Florentine architect, painter and mathematician (born 1638)[10]

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Fulco, Daniel (2016). Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire: Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment. BRILL. p. 312. ISBN 9789004308053.
"Cound Hall". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
"About Us". Burgh House. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
Hickman, Douglas (1970). Birmingham. London: Studio Vista. p. 13.
"Hirado Castle". www.japanvisitor.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
"Ludwigsburg - Germany". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
"Ware, Isaac (bap. 1704, d. 1766), architect". Oxforddnb. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28728. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
"John Wood the Elder – English architect". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
Wallis, John; Beeley, Philip; Scriba, Christoph J. (2012). Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703): Volume III (October 1668-1671). OUP Oxford. p. 404. ISBN 9780198569473.

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