1754 - Architecture, Real Estate

Architecture, Real Estate

St. Petersburg's turquoise and white Winter Palace is completed to designs by the Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli, 54, whose late father, Carlo, served as sculptor to Peter the Great.

Copenhagen's Amalienborg Palace is completed to designs by Danish architect Nikolai Eigtved, who dies at age 50.

Philadelphia's Christ Church is completed after 27 years of construction: the 200-foot steeple is the tallest structure in North America.

Woodcarver and interior designer Nicolas Pineau dies at his native Paris April 24 at age 69; John Wood at Bath May 23 at age 50 (approximate), leaving his son and namesake, now 26, to complete his plans for the Circus and Royal Crescent; James Gibbs dies at London August 5 at age 71, never having married.